[BC] Coil on OAT Meal Box...

Burt I. Weiner biwa at att.net
Wed Jul 15 12:45:05 CDT 2009


I normally would do a similar thing, but the temptation finally 
became to great.  I opted for the more "traditional" Oat Meal Box coil form.

Burt

>From: "tg at btsg.com" <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




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