{"id":7025,"date":"2025-01-22T17:37:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T06:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/01\/22\/soldersmoke-direct-conversion-receiver-challenge-soldering\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:00:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:00:59","slug":"soldersmoke-direct-conversion-receiver-challenge-soldering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/01\/22\/soldersmoke-direct-conversion-receiver-challenge-soldering\/","title":{"rendered":"SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver Challenge &#8212; Soldering!"},"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\/VONiz0u4sSA?si=hoR-MlGbXm_uS_wa?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><b>The DCR challenge is going well, and we have several builders making good progress. We noticed that some first-time builders are having a little trouble with soldering. Cold or weak solder joints are the bane of the of the homebrew builder\u2019s existence. It happens to all of us. A board that was working fine suddenly is not working \u2013 you poke around and touch some part and the board springs to life \u2013 you just found a cold solder joint. Dean, KK4DAS put together a short bonus video just on soldering. He covers the tools you need for a basic soldering station, and step-by-step instructions for reliable soldering Manhattan Style.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DCR challenge is going well, and we have several builders making good progress. We noticed that some first-time builders are having a little trouble with soldering. Cold or weak solder joints are the bane of the of the homebrew builder\u2019s existence. It happens to all of us. A board that was working fine suddenly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/01\/22\/soldersmoke-direct-conversion-receiver-challenge-soldering\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver Challenge &#8212; Soldering!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[248,90,12,79,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-direct-conversion-challenge","category-souleles-dean","category-tj-dc-rx","category-workbench","category-workshop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7025","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=7025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11167,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7025\/revisions\/11167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}