Re: Affordable (?) 7" Diameter FSL Design
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Phil,
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The "Funnoodle" floating tube (actually a swimming aide for kids) is the inner core material used for all my FSL's, and provides the perfect combination of resilience and stiffness, even for very heavy FSL's (up to 25 pounds). It has a convenient hole through the middle, to exactly fit a 3/4" diameter PVC pipe section for your FSL's horizontal hanging frame. A photo of the "Funnoodle" (and other FSL core materials) is posted at http://www.mediafire.com/i/?sb60cm5c31e8tw4 The "Funnoodle" flolating tube is available here locally at both Walmart and Fred Meyer stores, and costs only about $4 for a 6-foot long tube. That should be long enough for you to make about 15 FSL's with it :-) 73, Gary
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From: D1028Gary <D1028Gary@...> To: ultralightdx <ultralightdx@...> Sent: Sat, Sep 3, 2011 12:33 pm Subject: Re: [ultralightdx] Re: Affordable (?) 7" Diameter FSL Design Hi Phil, The 7" FSL (designed for MW coverage) uses 20 turns of the 660/46 Litz wire, and each turn takes 23" of wire. Ordering 45 feet of the Litz wire should be more than sufficient, assuming that your padding material does not make your FSL's final diameter much larger than my model (just under 7"). Please note that my 7" (Affordable) FSL design uses 660/46 Litz wire from the eBay seller "Mkmak222," and that all the performance reports and MP3's were based on the use of that high quality wire. Substitution of lower quality Litz wire may adversly affect your FSL's performance. Concerning the delayed completion of the 7.5" Longwave plug-in loopsticks, I still do plan to complete construction of them all, as time allows (there is an extreme shortage of free time here, currently). That particular loopstick model requires both electronic and power tool construction experience to complete, which is presumably the reason why no other technician has volunteered to meet the surging demand. Sorry for the delay, but your loopstick job has not been forgotten, Phil. 73, Gary -----Original Message----- From: ppasteur <ppasteur@q.com> To: ultralightdx <ultralightdx@...> Sent: Fri, Sep 2, 2011 3:54 pm Subject: [ultralightdx] Re: Affordable (?) 7" Diameter FSL Design Gary, How much of the 660/46 Litz wire woiuld you estimat you used on the 7" FSL. I am putting together the parts to try my hand at building one. There are also a few vendors on Ebay selling the wire, any recomendations, or is there some other place I should be looking? As to the "funnoodle" thing. Where the heck would one look for that? BTW. I hope that I am still on your list for a longwave ferrite for the PL-360.. :) Phil
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