Not every loopstick transplant is amazingly
successful-- some are a lesson in humility.
After carefully creating a 7.5" Amidon ferrite bar
loopstick wound with 40/44 Litz wire matching the ICF-S5W stock inductances (on
two coils), and painstakingly threading the four Litz wires through a tiny hole
so they wouldn't snarl the dial string, the net result was.... exactly the
same sensitivity as the stock unit!
With amazing successes in the E100 and DT-200VX
Ulttralights, the overconfident transplant tech was probably in need
of a lesson in humility, and it certainly was delivered-- big time.
So now it's back to refining the E100 and DT-200VX
Slider radios, both of which have managed to thrill everyone who has tried
them. With a deep freeze here, there should be time enough for
many fanatical technical projects.
