[MLB-WIRELESS] who makes cantennas?

[Robert Tchia]

Rick,
Go to safeway or coles, buy a tin of golden circle pine apple or what
ever fruit juice you fancy (85mm diameter x 175mm deep). The content
must be consume not thrown out or the canteena won't work efficiently
;-). Clean the tin and dry it. 

I found it hard to use the typical tin opener (one that open from top)
on this tin and opener that open from side tend to make the edges very
sharp (Filing the tin can make the edge uneven). To open this tin I
turned the end I wanted to open onto the concrete slab or a brick and
grind the tin back and forth until you can see the end separate from the
tin, then just pull the end off. It took me no more then a minute to
open my tin.

Buy a female N connector from JulesF. Cut a strand of copper wire (~1mm
thick x 35mm long) and solder it to the brass stub on the N connector.
Trim the wire to 30.7mm including the brass stub. 

Measure 58.06mm from the bottom of the tin and mark it. Rest the inside
of the tin on a piece of wood and hammer a nail to make a little dint to
use as a drill bit guide. Drill the hole out start from small drill bit
to large. Check the hole size with the N connector as the drill bit size
increase.

Mount the N connector to the tin using 4 screws

Eureka!!!  You have a canteena.


Cheers
Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-melbwireless at wireless.org.au [mailto:owner-
> melbwireless at wireless.org.au] On Behalf Of Barry Park
> Sent: Monday, 24 June 2002 7:09 PM
> To: melbwireless
> Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] who makes cantennas?
> 
> I'm trying the extra-large Heinz Big Red tomato soup tin at the
moment.
> The
> hardest part of cantenna mods is now convincing household members of a
> higher standard of cleanliness than I that the cans are not to be
thrown
> out
> because they are important to the wireless cause. I have lost *many*
> potential cantennas to the recycle bin.
> - Barry
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Hecker <jason at air.net.au>
> To: vak <vak at alphalink.com.au>; melbwireless
> <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
> Date: Monday, June 24, 2002 7:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] who makes cantennas?
> 
> 
> >You're cheap!  I can't even get the materials to make one at those
> prices!
> >Damn, there goes my idea for a cantenna manufacturing oligopoly.
> >
> >On Mon, 24 Jun 2002 14:58, vak wrote:
> >> I do,
> >>
> >> The range starts at $250 for baby formula tins, $360 for
weatherproof
> soup
> >> tins, $530 for industrial Gravox tins.
> >>
> >> Would you like me to ship you one ?
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Vak
> >> -------
> >>
> >> rick wrote:
> >> > who ever was going to make me a cantenna can you please get back
> >> > incontact with me?
> >> >
> >> > rik
> >
> >
> >
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