{"id":8381,"date":"2025-06-09T09:31:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T23:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/06\/09\/rick-w1dsps-fb-soldersmoke-direct-conversion-receiver-exploring-the-rabbit-holes\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T12:36:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T02:36:16","slug":"rick-w1dsps-fb-soldersmoke-direct-conversion-receiver-exploring-the-rabbit-holes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/06\/09\/rick-w1dsps-fb-soldersmoke-direct-conversion-receiver-exploring-the-rabbit-holes\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick W1DSP&#8217;s FB SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver &#8212; Exploring the Rabbit Holes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><object aria-label=\"Upload video\" class=\"BLOG_video_class\" contentid=\"eda50cc07f4bdff4\" height=\"266\" id=\"BLOG_video-eda50cc07f4bdff4\" width=\"320\"><\/object><\/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 to Rick W1DSP for sending us his &#8220;proof of life&#8221; video. It is indeed alive! Congratulations Rick! Welcome to the Hall of Fame!<\/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;\"><b>Rick writes: <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"background-color: white; font-size: 16px; white-space-collapse: break-spaces;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><i>Here&#8217;s another SS DCR proof of life video. I took a bunch of detours on the way to get here &#8211; redesigned the coil former to add a fixed coil (learned openscad), spent a bunch of times on the DCR classics (KK7B, W7EL designs), acquired parts to build the original KK7B DCR, and so on. This is the sort of project that&#8217;s a perfect excuse to explore all the sorts of rabbit holes we hope to find along the way to completing a project. T<\/i><\/span><\/b><\/span><span style=\"background-color: white; font-size: 16px; white-space-collapse: break-spaces;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><b><i>hanks for a great project. I&#8217;d just like to add that you&#8217;re building a great community of experimenters. Most excellent, sir! <\/i><\/b><\/span><\/span><b style=\"font-size: 16px; white-space-collapse: break-spaces;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><i>Thanks to Bill &#038; Dean!<\/i><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Rick W1DSP for sending us his &#8220;proof of life&#8221; video. It is indeed alive! Congratulations Rick! Welcome to the Hall of Fame! Rick writes: Here&#8217;s another SS DCR proof of life video. I took a bunch of detours on the way to get here &#8211; redesigned the coil former to add a fixed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/06\/09\/rick-w1dsps-fb-soldersmoke-direct-conversion-receiver-exploring-the-rabbit-holes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rick W1DSP&#8217;s FB SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver &#8212; Exploring the Rabbit Holes&#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":[126,9,11,206,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campbell-rick","category-dc-receiver-build","category-dc-rx-hall-of-fame","category-lewallan-roy","category-tj-dc-rx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8381","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=8381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11074,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8381\/revisions\/11074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}