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Minimalist Radio Receiver
Now that my minimalist QRSS transmitter is mostly functional, I'm shifting gears toward building a minimalist receiver. These are some early tests, but I'm amazed I managed to hack something together that actually works! Once it's finished I'll post schematics. For now, here are some photos. This receiver is based upon an SA602 and although there *IS* an op-amp on the board, I actually bypassed it completely! The SA602 seems to put out enough juice to make my PC microphone jack happy, and those cheap op-amps are noisy anyway, so awesome! Go minimalism!
Here's the output from 7.040 MHz. Conditions are pretty bad right now, and I'm at my apartment using my crazy indoor antenna
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--- title: Minimalist Radio Receiver date: 2010-06-09 23:42:00 tags: qrss, amateur radio, old --- # Minimalist Radio Receiver __Now that my minimalist QRSS transmitter is mostly functional, I'm shifting gears toward building a minimalist receiver.__ These are some early tests, but I'm amazed I managed to hack something together that actually works! Once it's finished I'll post schematics. For now, here are some photos. This receiver is based upon an SA602 and although there \*IS\* an op-amp on the board, I actually bypassed it completely! The SA602 seems to put out enough juice to make my PC microphone jack happy, and those cheap op-amps are noisy anyway, so awesome! Go minimalism! <div class="text-center img-border img-medium"> [](DSCN0832.jpg) [](DSCN0833.jpg) </div> __Here's the output from 7.040 MHz.__ Conditions are pretty bad right now, and I'm at my apartment using my crazy indoor antenna <div class="text-center img-border img-medium"> [](recvbig.jpg) </div>