I was really pleased to confirm that Dale Parfitt, W4OP, was inducted into the QRP Hall of Fame in 2025. It would have been a travesty to leave him out.
I met Dale on the internet years ago. After homebrewing one myself, I had found on the internet a version of Doug DeMaw's Barebones Superhet receiver using a FAR printed circuit board. Years later, I was having a bit of trouble with it. I think was probably trying to change the band from 20 meter to 17 meters or something like that. There was this guy named Dale who was helping me a lot. After a while, he said something like, "Hey, wait a minute. That receiver board you have sounds very familiar. Wait! That's the receiver that I built!" It was. I was working on a receiver that Dale himself had built.
It turns out that I have told this story many times on the SolderSmoke blog. (That's what happens when a story is good, and when the blog is OLD!) Many other W4OP adventures appear on the blog (including a water-cooled EME anteanna, and reception of Mike Rainey AA1TJ's Vanguard replica transmitter). Check out the W4OP posts on the SolderSmoke blog here:
And be sure to listen to Eric Guth 4Z1UG's interview with Dale:
Congratulations on the QRP Hall of Fame induction Dale. It was richly deserved and makes membershop in that group all the more meaningful.
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