{"id":5043,"date":"2009-12-12T05:16:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T18:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/12\/12\/dale-parfitt-w4op-homebrew-hero\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T18:15:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T08:15:29","slug":"dale-parfitt-w4op-homebrew-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/12\/12\/dale-parfitt-w4op-homebrew-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"Dale Parfitt, W4OP, Homebrew Hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/DalesDrake2B_homebrew_small_thumb4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 289px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/DalesDrake2B_homebrew_small_thumb4.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5414217347556911586\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Yesterday, in my search for pictures of the Drake 2B, I came across VE3MPG&#8217;s excellent interview with Dale Parfitt, W4OP. Dale and I crossed paths years ago: After I built my first version of Doug DeMaw&#8217;s Barebones Superhet, I went out on the net and found a couple of kit versions of this receiver for sale. A few years later, I was working on one of them, and turned (as you do) to QRP-L for some advice. Dale came to the rescue and we started exchanging e-mails. After a while he told me that the version I was working on sounded familiar. Sure enough, he was the original builder! The story appears in SolderSmoke &#8212; The Book.<\/p>\n<p>Here is further evidence that Dale and I have similar tastes in receivers: Pictured above is his solid state version of the Drake 2-B. FB! I note that the dial scales are the same as the hollow-state version.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the VE3MPG interview:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/ve3mpg.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/interview-with-dale-parfitt-par.html\">http:\/\/ve3mpg.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/interview-with-dale-parfitt-par.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, in my search for pictures of the Drake 2B, I came across VE3MPG&#8217;s excellent interview with Dale Parfitt, W4OP. Dale and I crossed paths years ago: After I built my first version of Doug DeMaw&#8217;s Barebones Superhet, I went out on the net and found a couple of kit versions of this receiver for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/12\/12\/dale-parfitt-w4op-homebrew-hero\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dale Parfitt, W4OP, Homebrew Hero&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5043","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\/5043","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=5043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5045,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5043\/revisions\/5045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}