{"id":23072,"date":"2016-12-30T10:44:45","date_gmt":"2016-12-30T14:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=23072"},"modified":"2016-12-30T10:44:45","modified_gmt":"2016-12-30T14:44:45","slug":"video-gary-debocks-baby-fsl-antenna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/video-gary-debocks-baby-fsl-antenna\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Gary DeBock&#8217;s &#8220;Baby FSL&#8221; antenna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/BabyFSL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23083\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/BabyFSL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/BabyFSL.jpg 650w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/BabyFSL-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/BabyFSL-624x362.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor,\u00a0Gary DeBock (N7EKX), who shares this video and notes the following <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/WYuikQj7yPA\" target=\"_blank\">on YouTube<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is the new 3.5 inch (89mm) &#8220;Baby FSL&#8221; antenna, designed to provide a powerful DXing gain boost for Ultralight radios (or any other portables) despite its very small size. It has 32 Russian surplus 140mm x 8mm ferrite rods and 31 turns of 1162\/46 Litz wire. In the demonstration video it provides a daytime DX gain boost for 750-KXTG (Tigard, Oregon, 50 kW at 160 miles) from inaudible up to about S7 on the Eton Traveler III Ultralight radio.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WYuikQj7yPA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/WYuikQj7yPA\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to view on YouTube.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Gary is certainly a first-rate DXer and an ambassador of our radio hobby.\u00a0Gary shows us here that, with a little ingenuity, we can take a $50 radio and turn it into something exceptional! Homebrewing at its best. \u00a0Thank you, Gary!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Also, I had never considered that a\u00a0high-gain FSL antenna would require very precise placement of the receiver for proper inductive coupling. It makes sense, though. This loop is tuned for razor-sharp precision!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Some day, when I have a little free time, I&#8217;m going to build <a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/tag\/gary-debock\/\" target=\"_blank\">one of Gary&#8217;s FSL designs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor,\u00a0Gary DeBock (N7EKX), who shares this video and notes the following on YouTube: This is the new 3.5 inch (89mm) &#8220;Baby FSL&#8221; antenna, designed to provide a powerful DXing gain boost for Ultralight radios (or any other portables) despite its very small size. It has 32 Russian surplus 140mm x [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[373,3607,627,433,3,3727,304],"tags":[5766,5767,4661,4099,5648,3734,4093],"class_list":["post-23072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am","category-antennas","category-how-to","category-mediumwave","category-news","category-ultralight-dx","category-videos","tag-baby-fsl","tag-fsl-antenna","tag-gary-debock","tag-mediumwave","tag-ultralight-dx","tag-ultralight-mw-dx","tag-videos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-608","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38261,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/video-demonstration-of-gary-debocks-3-baby-fsl-antenna\/","url_meta":{"origin":23072,"position":0},"title":"Video Demonstration of Gary DeBock&#8217;s 3&#8243; Baby FSL Antenna","author":"Thomas","date":"June 20, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Gary DeBock, who shares a video of his latest Ferrite Sleeve Loop (FSL) antenna: the 3\" Baby FSL. Gary Notes: The new design 3 Inch (76mm) Baby FSL antenna is the smallest, most compact and lightweight of the \"airport friendly\" FSL's developed here recently,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;AM&quot;","block_context":{"text":"AM","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/am\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Baby-FSL-Antenna-components-e1561029185374.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Baby-FSL-Antenna-components-e1561029185374.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Baby-FSL-Antenna-components-e1561029185374.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Baby-FSL-Antenna-components-e1561029185374.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":45547,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/gary-debock-experiments-with-fsl-antenna-nulling-to-eliminate-a-pest-station\/","url_meta":{"origin":23072,"position":1},"title":"Gary DeBock experiments with FSL antenna nulling to eliminate a &#8220;pest&#8221; 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