This paper presents a hybrid conjugate gradient (CG) approach for solving nonlinear equations and signal reconstruction. The CG parameter of the approach is a convex combination of the Dai‐Yuan (DY)‐like and Hestenes‐Stiefel (HS)‐like parameters. Independent of any line search, the search direction is descent and bounded. Under some reasonable assumptions, the global convergence of the hybrid approach is proved. Numerical experiments on some benchmark test problems show that the proposed approach is efficient compared with some existing algorithms. Finally, the proposed approach is applied in signal reconstruction.