ABOUT - Slinky Antennas - More Then You Wanted To Know

[RHF]

For One and All,
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ABOUT - Slinky Antennas - More Then You Wanted To Know
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Shortwave-SWL-Antenna/message/5367
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Slinky's as an SWL Antenna
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Shortwave-SWL-Antenna/message/4756
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Confessions of a Slinky Antenna Junkie - Part V
{DX-1 Vertical SWL Antenna}
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Shortwave-SWL-Antenna/message/2784
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Slinky Loop Antennas :
Size - Frequency / Wavelength - Antenna Pattern
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Shortwave-SWL-Antenna/message/2754
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Confessions of a Slinky Antenna Junkie - Part IV
{ The Mini-Slinky ! }
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Shortwave-SWL-Antenna/message/2763
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Confessions of a Slinky Antenna Junkie - Part III
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Shortwave-SWL-Antenna/message/2756
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Confessions of a Slinky Antenna Junkie Part II
{Slinky Horizontal [Square] Loop Antenna in the Attic}
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Shortwave-SWL-Antenna/message/2748
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Confessions of a Slinky Antenna Junkie Part I
{Slinky Jr. on a Hula Hoop = Loop Antenna ?}
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Shortwave-SWL-Antenna/message/2741
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Shortwave-SWL-Antenna/message/2746
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Shortwave-SWL-Antenna/message/2751
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A "Compendium" of SLINKY Antenna Posts and Ideas [Was: Slinky]
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Shortwave-SWL-Antenna/message/1644
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iane ~ RHF
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All are WELCOME and "Invited to Join" the
Shortwave Listener (SWL) Antenna eGroup on YAHOO !
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Shortwave-SWL-Antenna/>
SWL ANTENNAS GROUP => http://tinyurl.com/an6tw
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Some Say: On A Clear Day You Can See Forever.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Shortwave-SWL-Antenna/message/502
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I BELIEVE: On A Clear Night . . .
You Can Hear Forever and Beyond, The BEYOND !
With a Shortwave Listener SWL Antenna of your own making.
"If You Build It {SWL Antenna} You Will Hear Them !"
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[cuh...@webtv.net]

I don't think those new fangled plastic Slinkys will work so well
though,must me the old fasioned steel Slinkys.
cuhulin

[BDK]

In article <21565-43...@storefull-3253.bay.webtv.net>,
cuh...@webtv.net says...

> I don't think those new fangled plastic Slinkys will work so well
> though,must me the old fasioned steel Slinkys.
> cuhulin
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The slinky dipole I made 20 years ago was by far the best antenna I have
ever had..

I think I'm gonna hunt a few Slinkys up and make a new one next month...

BDK

[cuh...@webtv.net]

I wonder if the steel Slinkys are still being made? I would like to try
out a Slinky antenna too.I owned one back in the 1950's.
cuhulin

[cuh...@webtv.net]

www.devilfinder.com Slinky Toys

Slinkys have an interesting History.
cuhulin

[BDK]

In article <19157-433...@storefull-3252.bay.webtv.net>,
cuh...@webtv.net says...

> I wonder if the steel Slinkys are still being made? I would like to try
> out a Slinky antenna too.I owned one back in the 1950's.
> cuhulin
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I saw some a few months ago at a toy store. Those things take solder
better than about anything I have ever seen. I overlap the ends and wrap
them really tightly with small gauge bare wire and solder the hell out
of it and after it's up, spray it heavily with clear paint and it will
last 10-15 years. You would be amazed at how far two or three will
stretch out on a rope.

BDK

[Caveat Lector]

The Original Slinky -- so they say
And only $2.99
URL:
http://sactoys.com/shop/itemdetails.aspx?itemid=3367&brandid=0&searchfor=slinky

Use two for a dipole
Slinky Antenna for $10 -- From KG6IIR
http://mysdhomevalue.com/album1_004.htm

Or spend more here
http://www.antennasmore.com/helitrix.htm

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CL -- I doubt, therefore I might be !

[cuh...@webtv.net]

There is a Toys R Us (I wish I could type that R backwards) store on
Highway 80 within about a block of me and a wal mart store at the
intersection of Greenway Drive and Highway 18 about one and six tenths
of a mile South of me.I will check them out tomorrow for Slinky toys.
cuhulin

[cuh...@webtv.net]

sactoys.com? If I can't find a Slinky in a local area store,I will check
out sactoys.com Might as well buy two or three and have another one to
play with.
cuhulin

[RHF]

CL - WalMart has the Slinky Jr.'s for 88 Cents
and the standard Slinky for under $2 ~ RHF

[cuh...@webtv.net]

OK,I will three Slinkys at the wal mart store tomorrow afternoon.
cuhulin

[Mark Harper]

In article <17827-43...@storefull-3256.bay.webtv.net>,
cuh...@webtv.net says...

Best of luck!

I went to a TRU in Warrington, in NW England, looking for pretty much
the same thing - the looks I got asking for slinkys and hula-hoops - let
alnoe trying to explain that I wanted to make an aerial of it!

73

Mark (MW1MDH)

[cuh...@webtv.net]

In that case,I ought to go into the Slinky exporting business.I can buy
them cheap over here and sell them over there.
cuhulin

[RHF]

BDK - On a Rope is right.
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RIGGING THE SLINKY DIPOLE ANTENNA :
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Shortwave-SWL-Antenna/message/5389
To support the Slinky Dipole Antenna and not have it SAG.
Measure-Off and Mark the length of your Dipole on a piece
of Nylon/Poly Rope (leave an extra foot of Rope on each
End. Run the Rope through (inside) the Slinkys. Tie-Off
the Ends of the Rope into two Dog Bone Insulators, and
also Hook the Ends of the Slinky into the Insulators.
Attach two support-mounting Ropes into the opposite ends
of the Insulators.
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Then Stretch-Out your Slinky and Enjoy you Radios ~ RHF
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[BDK]

In article <1127429992.0...@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, rhf-
newsg...@pacbell.net says...

From experience I would say you want some sag, if you make it really
tight, the rope seemed to fall apart more quickly than if I let it sag a
little. Besides, pulling the rope that tight isn't an easy thing to do
by yourself...

BDK

[cuh...@webtv.net]

How about an ordinary bicycle wheel,the old fashioned kind (the first
bicycles had wooden wheels with wooden spokes) with wire spokes?
cuhulin

[RHF]

BDK,
Try a Slinky Dipole Antenna without an Inner
Rope Support - and you will really See SAG !
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Rig the Rope the same way you would
Rig-a-Wire for a Wire Antenna Element.
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iane ~ RHF
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[Charles Maetta]

Picked up a couple of steel slinkys in my local Walmart a few weeks ago.

Chuck

"Mark Harper" <m1w...@tiscaliiiii.co.uk> wrote in message
news:MPG.1d9d36ec...@news.tiscali.co.uk...

[cuh...@webtv.net]

I am fixin to go to the Goodwill store and then to the wal mart store
(food department) for grub and my usual two six packs and,Slinkys.
cuhulin

[cuh...@webtv.net]

I didn't see any Slinky toys in the toy department (about 13 or 14
aisles of all kinds of toys and I walked every one of them twice) at the
wal mart store this afternoon.I am not going to worry about it.
cuhulin

[AbbN]

Hi,

I recently found them at Walmart.....but that's here in Canada

Abb N

<cuh...@webtv.net> wrote in message
news:19157-433...@storefull-3252.bay.webtv.net...

[Emmett Bean]

Hi,

Yes they are. They are called the Cliffdweller II.

You can find the site on Google.

Emmett

[Yodar]

Charles Maetta wrote:
> Picked up a couple of steel slinkys in my local Walmart a few weeks ago.
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> Chuck

>>I went to a TRU in Warrington, in NW England, looking for pretty much

>>the same thing - the looks I got asking for slinkys and hula-hoops - let
>>alnoe trying to explain that I wanted to make an aerial of it!
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>>73
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>>Mark (MW1MDH)
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At MY WalMart when I asked around for Slinky I met a Vendor stocking
shelves who was a HAM, invited me to visit their meeting and said I'd
made a good choice for an improvisational antenna, told me how to rig it
using a WalMart telescoping fiberglass fishing pole

Yodar