{"id":38261,"date":"2019-06-20T07:30:02","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T11:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=38261"},"modified":"2019-06-20T07:30:02","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T11:30:02","slug":"video-demonstration-of-gary-debocks-3-baby-fsl-antenna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/video-demonstration-of-gary-debocks-3-baby-fsl-antenna\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Demonstration of Gary DeBock&#8217;s 3&#8243; Baby FSL Antenna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Baby-FSL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38262\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Baby-FSL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Baby-FSL.jpg 800w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Baby-FSL-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Baby-FSL-768x424.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Baby-FSL-624x345.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Gary DeBock, who shares a video of his latest Ferrite Sleeve Loop (FSL) antenna: the 3&#8243; Baby FSL.<\/p>\n<p>Gary Notes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The new design 3 Inch (76mm) Baby FSL antenna is the smallest, most compact and lightweight of the &#8220;airport friendly&#8221; FSL&#8217;s developed here recently, but it provides a very potent inductive coupling boost for weak AM-DX signals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Baby-FSL-Antenna-components-e1561029185374.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38263\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Baby-FSL-Antenna-components-e1561029185374.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"590\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This demonstration video shows its huge boost to a weak daytime DX signal from 1070-CFAX (10 kW in Victoria, BC, Canada) here in Puyallup, WA, USA:<\/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\/JZtYli09mTg?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\/JZtYli09mTg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to view on YouTube.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most impressive, Gary! You&#8217;re right: that design is compact enough that it should even fit the bill for my <a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/one-bag-radio-the-way-to-go\/\">one-bag travel<\/a> philosophy. I think I might have to build one of these!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/tag\/gary-debock\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Check out more of Gary&#8217;s adventures in Ultralight DXing, by browsing our archive.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Gary DeBock, who shares a video of his latest Ferrite Sleeve Loop (FSL) antenna: the 3&#8243; Baby FSL. Gary Notes: The new design 3 Inch (76mm) Baby FSL antenna is the smallest, most compact and lightweight of the &#8220;airport friendly&#8221; FSL&#8217;s developed here recently, but it provides a very [&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":[373,3607,5935,433,3,26],"tags":[7841,6398,6397,5895,4663,5896,4661,3732,4667],"class_list":["post-38261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am","category-antennas","category-dx","category-mediumwave","category-news","category-radios","tag-3-inch-baby-fsl-antenna","tag-c-crane-cc-skywave-ssb","tag-cc-skywave-ssb","tag-ferrite","tag-ferrite-sleeve-loop","tag-fsl","tag-gary-debock","tag-gary-debock-ultralight-radio","tag-loop-antennas"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-9X7","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23072,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/video-gary-debocks-baby-fsl-antenna\/","url_meta":{"origin":38261,"position":0},"title":"Video: Gary DeBock&#8217;s &#8220;Baby FSL&#8221; antenna","author":"Thomas","date":"December 30, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"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) \"Baby FSL\" antenna, designed to provide a powerful DXing gain boost for Ultralight radios (or any other portables) despite its very small size. 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Ruth and I took this trip as the 38th anniversary of out first meeting at\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\/2018\/04\/Gary-DeBock-CC-Skywave-SSB.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Gary-DeBock-CC-Skywave-SSB.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Gary-DeBock-CC-Skywave-SSB.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Gary-DeBock-CC-Skywave-SSB.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":17892,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/guest-post-jerrys-mediumwave-dxing-powerhouse-mini-fsl-antenna\/","url_meta":{"origin":38261,"position":4},"title":"Guest Post: Jerry&#8217;s Mediumwave DXing Powerhouse Mini FSL Antenna","author":"Thomas","date":"March 23, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor,\u00a0Jerry Popiel, for the following guest post: A MW DXing Powerhouse Mini FSL Antenna by\u00a0Jerry Popiel In late February 2016 I completed construction of a modified version of Gary DeBock's excellent 3 inch Mini FSL design (click here to view). 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