{"id":6720,"date":"2025-03-14T15:42:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T04:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/03\/14\/victors-fb-soldersmoke-direct-conversion-receiver-from-holland-pulls-in-stations-from-all-over-europe-and-one-from-japan\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:00:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:00:58","slug":"victors-fb-soldersmoke-direct-conversion-receiver-from-holland-pulls-in-stations-from-all-over-europe-and-one-from-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/03\/14\/victors-fb-soldersmoke-direct-conversion-receiver-from-holland-pulls-in-stations-from-all-over-europe-and-one-from-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor&#8217;s FB SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver from Holland Pulls In Stations from All Over Europe&#8230; and One from Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eZyNwB6h5MY?si=5F9Nfk6l_rw9UR-2?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Victor is a retired Electrical Engineer from the Netherlands. He doesn&#8217;t have a ham radio call sign, but as I have said about other receiver builders, he deserves one. Note the truly homebrew approach that Victor used on the PTO coil form. And he had to rebuild this part to get the receiver on 40 meters. As we can see in the above video, Victor&#8217;s homebrew receiver is pulling in stations from across Europe. Victor even reports hearing a Japanese station. FB! <\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Victors20DCR201.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"691\" data-original-width=\"921\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Victors20DCR201.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Victor writes:<\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><i>Hi Bill, I changed the PTO tuning unit, more stable this way. I m a retired electrical engineer, revamping on a more daily basis tube radios from the 50&#8217;s \ud83d\ude09 I include a Bluetooth interface too so they can be used again by &#8220;young&#8221; people with their smartphones.. I had great fun and learning experiences building the DCR !! <\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhBkLrEfKjm27KNOflo_tMIW-1H3m-THLSBVroWzZopwwAnRBKgZSi3E9vcHvlv081LB15V5LMcHdP3pklBG_CpQNI7wHe4_EHj3nBiLHzZdV9IUxXm2ixhXgMsapRSEIJk-N0B2N2ecDyc4GntMEpgS4paFj9sXNvQdqi2U-CmilR7iIC7s1jVLBD_fDs\/s921\/Victor's%20PTO.webp\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"691\" data-original-width=\"921\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image_1753097506.jpg's%20PTO.webp\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><b>Thanks for the video, pictures, and messages Victor. Congratulations! <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: \"Trebuchet MS\", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em;\"><b style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">For more information on how you too can build the receiver: <\/b><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: \"Trebuchet MS\", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;\">\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; 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He doesn&#8217;t have a ham radio call sign, but as I have said about other receiver builders, he deserves one. Note the truly homebrew approach that Victor used on the PTO coil form. And he had to rebuild this part to get the receiver on 40 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/03\/14\/victors-fb-soldersmoke-direct-conversion-receiver-from-holland-pulls-in-stations-from-all-over-europe-and-one-from-japan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Victor&#8217;s FB SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver from Holland Pulls In Stations from All Over Europe&#8230; and One from Japan&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11,166,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dc-receiver-build","category-dc-rx-hall-of-fame","category-netherlands","category-tubes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6723,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6720\/revisions\/6723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}