{"id":81,"date":"2013-12-05T10:14:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T23:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2013\/12\/05\/w4op-earth-moon-earth-and-another-barebones-superhet\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T12:35:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T02:35:42","slug":"w4op-earth-moon-earth-and-another-barebones-superhet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2013\/12\/05\/w4op-earth-moon-earth-and-another-barebones-superhet\/","title":{"rendered":"W4OP — Earth-Moon-Earth and Another Barebones Superhet"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Years ago I bought a Barebones Superhet from Dale Parfitt on E-bay. Several years after that, having forgotten who I bought it from, I was asking questions about how to get it working on 17 meters. Dale jumped in with some very helpful e-mails. It took us both a while to realize that I was working on the receiver that he had built. Dale is active in a really wide range of ham radio activities, everything from QRP to EME. Check out his homebrew projects here (I really like his Solid State Drake 2-B!) <\/strong>http:\/\/www.parelectronics.com\/par-homebrew-projects.php<\/a> <\/strong>
And his vintage projects here: <\/strong>http:\/\/www.parelectronics.com\/vintage-radio-restoration.php<\/a>
And here’s what Dale has been doing with the Moon (that’s his 15 foot dish in the picture): <\/strong><\/div>\n

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Hi Bill,<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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I thought of you today when I won a Bare Bones Barbados RX on eBay for $5. I am going to team it with a DDS VFO and a matching TX.<\/span>Some parts are apparently missing, but i have a huge junk box and also know how to order from Mouser should the junk box fail me.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n

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Right now I am putting my solid state 650W 1296MHz EME amp , Power Supply, meters etc. in its waterproof cabinet so I can mount it right at the dish and not incur any feedline losses.<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n

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1296 is probably the best EME band. Power is getting easier and easier to acquire (although solid state is around $5\/watt), dishes are fairly easy to acquire or build and perhaps most importantly, we all use circular polarity feeds with no relays\/hybrids. Activity weekend can sound like 20M, with a number of stations just ragchewing on CW and SSB. <\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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<\/strong>Dale W4OP
for PAR Electronics, Inc.
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Years ago I bought a Barebones Superhet from Dale Parfitt on E-bay. Several years after that, having forgotten who I bought it from, I was asking questions about how to get it working on 17 meters. Dale jumped in with some very helpful e-mails. It took us both a while to realize that I was … Continue reading “W4OP — Earth-Moon-Earth and Another Barebones Superhet”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6,5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-demaw-doug","category-drake-2b","category-eme","category-moonbounce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","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=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/83"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}