When I first heard the term Ugly Weekender, I thought of the young ham guy who went out partying Friday night and through an unfortunate incident of beer goggling* awakes the next morning to see a YL like this next to him. That had the makings of a true Ugly Weekender. *Beer Goggling C'mon guys it's somebody's Grandma! We are not covering that kind of weekender but one that highlights that seminal W7ZOI project involving a CW transceiver. The Ugly Weekender was mentioned in yesterday's blog and the link has a you tube video. Ugly Weekender There is an elegance to the W7ZOI design in that it is a Direct Conversion Receiver with a tunable analog LO and that LO serves as the frequency source for the Transmitter. For those ashamed of being an Amateur Extra and don't own a soldering iron or have never built anything, this is a project for you. The reason I suggest that is that you can build the receiver first and listen to how good a DCR can sound and then you can add t...