{"id":8685,"date":"2022-09-29T15:24:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T05:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2022\/09\/29\/a-bout-of-direct-conversion-ism-in-northern-virginia-dc-receivers-under-construction\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:02:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:02:55","slug":"a-bout-of-direct-conversion-ism-in-northern-virginia-dc-receivers-under-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2022\/09\/29\/a-bout-of-direct-conversion-ism-in-northern-virginia-dc-receivers-under-construction\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bout of Direct Conversion-ism in Northern Virginia &#8212; DC Receivers Under Construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XuMxA-UXT9I?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>There I was, minding my own business, when suddenly I was dragged into the construction of Direct Conversion receivers. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Here is a video about my latest effort. But I feel the urge for more simplification &#8212; I may go back to the seminal DC receiver designed by Wes W7ZOI and presented in the November 1968 issue of QST. It is on page 15 here: <a href=\"https:\/\/worldradiohistory.com\/Archive-DX\/QST\/60s\/QST-1968-11.pdf\">https:\/\/worldradiohistory.com\/Archive-DX\/QST\/60s\/QST-1968-11.pdf<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There I was, minding my own business, when suddenly I was dragged into the construction of Direct Conversion receivers. Here is a video about my latest effort. But I feel the urge for more simplification &#8212; I may go back to the seminal DC receiver designed by Wes W7ZOI and presented in the November 1968 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2022\/09\/29\/a-bout-of-direct-conversion-ism-in-northern-virginia-dc-receivers-under-construction\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Bout of Direct Conversion-ism in Northern Virginia &#8212; DC Receivers Under Construction&#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":[35,66,60,34,90,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-direct-conversion","category-farhan","category-hayward-wes","category-mixer-theory","category-souleles-dean","category-tj-dc-rx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8685","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=8685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11350,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8685\/revisions\/11350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}