{"id":10765,"date":"2011-07-29T10:07:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T00:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/07\/29\/amateur-radio-at-par-w4op\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T05:05:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T19:05:00","slug":"amateur-radio-at-par-w4op","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/07\/29\/amateur-radio-at-par-w4op\/","title":{"rendered":"Amateur radio at PAR (W4OP)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/w4opshack_620.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 293px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/w4opshack_620.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634713971546062290\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">An e-mail exchange on QRP-L this morning about using ceramic resonators in 455 kHz filter circuits (great idea Grayson!) led me to the <\/span><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.parelectronics.com\/par-amateur-radio.php\">ham radio corner<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> of the PAR electronics web site. PAR is the company run by Dale Parfitt, W4OP. <\/span><br \/><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.parelectronics.com\/par-amateur-radio.php\">http:\/\/www.parelectronics.com\/par-amateur-radio.php<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">.<br \/>That&#8217;s a nice looking 2-B Dale! Please send us the serial number! Even more impressive is Dale&#8217;s award-wining homebrew solid state version of the 2-B (on the far right). Visit his web site for more info (on his site you can hover your mouse above the pieces of gear for more info). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">I&#8217;m proud to say that I have a piece of gear in my shack that was built by Dale Par<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">fitt. The story is told in <a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\">SolderSmoke The Book<\/a>: I&#8217;d built my own version of Doug DeMaw&#8217;s Barebones Superhet and had liked it a lot. When I saw another one (this one built on a FAR circuits board) for sale on e-bay, I bought it. It stayed on the shelf for a while. Years later when I started working on it, I turned to QRP-L for help and this fellow named Dale Parfitt came to my rescue. It was only after a long series of e-mail exchanges did we realize that the receiver we were discussing had been built (and sold to me) by&#8230; Dale Parfitt. <\/span><br \/><\/span><br \/>Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221;<a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a>Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke\">http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a>Our Book Store: <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20\">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An e-mail exchange on QRP-L this morning about using ceramic resonators in 455 kHz filter circuits (great idea Grayson!) led me to the ham radio corner of the PAR electronics web site. PAR is the company run by Dale Parfitt, W4OP. http:\/\/www.parelectronics.com\/par-amateur-radio.php.That&#8217;s a nice looking 2-B Dale! Please send us the serial number! Even more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/07\/29\/amateur-radio-at-par-w4op\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Amateur radio at PAR (W4OP)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-demaw-doug","category-drake-2b"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10765","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10767,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10765\/revisions\/10767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}