[BC] Coil on Oat Meal Box...

[tg at btsg.com]

HI Burt,

I do something similar with various sizes of thin wall PVC pipe.  The PVC is easy to mount on some
old leftover porcelain resistor standoffs.

Tommy Gray

----- Original Message -----
From: Burt I. Weiner

About two years ago I commissioned a TIS station.  The antenna is a 
Valcom and the ACU is a LPB type that was ordered through Valcom as a 
system.  As things turned out I needed to add about 27 turns between 
the output branch of the ACU and the antenna base.  In order to do 
this in a proper and fitting manner I obtained an Oat Meal Box 
(Quaker Oats) and wound the coil on that.  To this day it is mounted 
inside the ACU cabinet, is stable and works poifectly!

Burt

>From: "Dana  Puopolo" <dpuopolo at usa.net>
>
>As a teenager, I had a mentor, Alton Buck. He was an electrician who made his
>own everything. A true genius!  Buck (as he was known) told me that as a young
>boy he built a crystal set, winding the coil on a Quaker oatmeal box.