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Dec 04 2025

The SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver

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Well gosh. About a month ago, it was feeling as if every builder in the homebrew community had built the SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver, apart from me. That’s a slight exaggeration, but I’d had a nagging feeling in the back of my head for quite a long time that I really ought to build it...

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Sep 16 2025

“The Jingy 40” – A Two-Transistor Regen

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Or “The One-Transistor Regen That Turned Into A Two-Transistor Regen” with thanks to G3XBM and N0WVA. (Note – if reading this post on a computer, you can click on any of the images for a slightly larger version.) About 10 years ago, Doug N0WVA told me about an impressive little regen he had...

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