{"id":8900,"date":"2025-05-31T13:31:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T03:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/05\/31\/not-a-toy-k1oa-making-contacts-with-the-soldersmoke-direct-conversion-receiver-and-a-ka4kxx-transmitter\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T12:36:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T02:36:16","slug":"not-a-toy-k1oa-making-contacts-with-the-soldersmoke-direct-conversion-receiver-and-a-ka4kxx-transmitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/05\/31\/not-a-toy-k1oa-making-contacts-with-the-soldersmoke-direct-conversion-receiver-and-a-ka4kxx-transmitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Not a Toy!  K1OA Making Contacts with the SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver and a KA4KXX Transmitter"},"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\/Fq3nkLcudAM?si=o6VDdAmUSKOaEk_S?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>T<span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">his goes to prove what we have been saying all along: this receiver is not a toy! It is capable of operating as part of a real 2-way ham radio station. Hall of Fame member Scott K1OA has paired his receiver up with a Merry Christmas transmitter designed by Walter KA4KXX and has been making CW contacts with it (see above). Walter supplied the crystal and many of the needed parts. Scott has already worked<span style=\"background-color: white;\"> <span style=\"font-size: 16px; white-space-collapse: break-spaces;\">WA9RNE, <\/span><\/span><span style=\"background-color: white; font-size: 16px; white-space-collapse: break-spaces;\">N4HAY and W3RJ, and has tried making contact with Walter but no luck yet. He has gotten RBN reports from Germany and New Zealand. All that with just 3 watts. <\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><b>This is not the first time this receiver has been out to use. I made one contact with it using a &#8220;Ten Minute&#8221; QRPp transmitter that I had intended only to use for test purposes: <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2023\/02\/first-qso-with-high-school-receiver-100.html\">https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2023\/02\/first-qso-with-high-school-receiver-100.html <\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><b>HoF member Aaron ZL1AUN used his receiver with an SSB transmitter to make contact using his receiver:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2025\/02\/soldersmoke-direct-conversion-receiver_23.html\">https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2025\/02\/soldersmoke-direct-conversion-receiver_23.html<\/a> We understand Aaron&#8217;s article about the receiver has been published in &#8220;Break-In&#8221; magazine &#8212; we hope to get a copy (electronic would be fine!) <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><b>And who can forget HoF member Nate KA1MUQ who turned his &#8220;frying pan&#8221; direct conversion receiver into a double sideband transceiver and used it to make phone contact with Idaho from California: <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2025\/03\/nate-ka1muq-turns-his-frying-pan-dc.html\"><b>https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2025\/03\/nate-ka1muq-turns-his-frying-pan-dc.html<\/b><b style=\"font-family: inherit;\"> <\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>If anyone is aware of other contacts made using this receiver, please let me know. <\/b> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This goes to prove what we have been saying all along: this receiver is not a toy! It is capable of operating as part of a real 2-way ham radio station. Hall of Fame member Scott K1OA has paired his receiver up with a Merry Christmas transmitter designed by Walter KA4KXX and has been making &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/05\/31\/not-a-toy-k1oa-making-contacts-with-the-soldersmoke-direct-conversion-receiver-and-a-ka4kxx-transmitter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Not a Toy!  K1OA Making Contacts with the SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver and a KA4KXX Transmitter&#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":[116,9,33,87,23,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cw","category-dc-receiver-build","category-dsb","category-qrp","category-ssb","category-tj-dc-rx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8900","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=8900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11077,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8900\/revisions\/11077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}