{"id":8034,"date":"2025-05-27T17:42:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T07:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/05\/27\/chuck-n4avcs-fb-soldersmoke-direct-conversion-receiver-i-enjoyed-the-build-and-testing\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T12:36:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T02:36:16","slug":"chuck-n4avcs-fb-soldersmoke-direct-conversion-receiver-i-enjoyed-the-build-and-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/05\/27\/chuck-n4avcs-fb-soldersmoke-direct-conversion-receiver-i-enjoyed-the-build-and-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Chuck N4AVC&#8217;s FB SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver: &#8220;I enjoyed the build and testing.&#8221;"},"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\/S3-_1jpPDNI?si=tDH5XBzV-fUz-enT?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>Chuck N4AVC&#8217;s use of the frequency counter in his digital multimeter is pretty cool and innovative. And it is nice to have yet another receiver in Virginia; he is down in the Richmond area. And of course the Sharpie callsign tattoos on the wooden board are really nice. <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Chuck writes: <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-family: \"gg sans\", \"Noto Sans\", \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space-collapse: break-spaces;\"><i><span style=\"background-color: white;\">Completed!!! For Pete: &#8220;She ain&#8217;t pretty, but she sure can cook!&#8221;. Thanks Bill and Dean, I enjoyed the build and testing. <\/span><\/i><\/span><span style=\"background-color: white; color: oklab(0.952331 0.000418991 -0.00125992); font-family: \"gg sans\", \"Noto Sans\", \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space-collapse: break-spaces;\">I<\/span><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: \"gg sans\", \"Noto Sans\", \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space-collapse: break-spaces;\">t&#8217;s funny, the audio oscillates on an older 9v battery, but is clean on the 9.5v bench supply. Going to put Bill&#8217;s mod on the inductor to make tuning a little finer and spread the boards out a little more. I used the double sided boards I had and there is some interaction between the boards.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: white; white-space-collapse: break-spaces;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><b>Congratulations Chuck! Welcome to the Hall of Fame! <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: \"gg sans\", \"Noto Sans\", \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space-collapse: break-spaces;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chuck N4AVC&#8217;s use of the frequency counter in his digital multimeter is pretty cool and innovative. And it is nice to have yet another receiver in Virginia; he is down in the Richmond area. And of course the Sharpie callsign tattoos on the wooden board are really nice. Chuck writes: Completed!!! For Pete: &#8220;She ain&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/05\/27\/chuck-n4avcs-fb-soldersmoke-direct-conversion-receiver-i-enjoyed-the-build-and-testing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chuck N4AVC&#8217;s FB SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver: &#8220;I enjoyed the build and testing.&#8221;&#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":[9,11,41,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dc-receiver-build","category-dc-rx-hall-of-fame","category-juliano-pete","category-tj-dc-rx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8034","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=8034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11078,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8034\/revisions\/11078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}