[BC] Coil on Oat Meal Box...

[Gary Zocolo]

I once had the task of moving a 20V2 from the upper band to the lower band 
for testing. The coil in the output was not big enough to give me enough 
inductance in the low band, so I defeated the interlocks, mounted a 4 inch 
piece of PVC on the back of the coil in the same plane, which is located at 
the top of the transmitter....it stuck out the back of the transmitter. I 
wound about 30 more turns with motor winding wire extending the coil and 
away we went. It tuned fine. It was assigned the call of KPI 203 and was on 
all summer for ground conductivity tests at 1 KW. Silent carrier except for 
once an hour ID....which I did with an auto-rewind machine and a C-120 
cassette. I traveled many dirt roads that summer listening to the mighty KPI 
203. The project ultimately never panned out.

Gary Zocolo
Cleveland

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Burt I. Weiner" <biwa at att.net>

> 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.
>