Wiring in Attic Space

[Michael Schirmer]

Anybody see this before? Don't know what it is. Some kind of static capacitors? or something to due with electric heat? I have absolutely no idea!

[Jerry Peck]

The first one and I was going to say "Looks like a phone line splice cover.", but ... with all those other ones ... ???

Maybe coils in an antenna wire for some type of radio? When I was very young I had a crystal radio set with antenna wire strung through our attic in our house up in New York south of Buffalo - I could listen to people all over with that thing ... okay, not listen well, but still it was very interesting for just a young tad.

[Scott Patterson]

That is for a shortwave radio, maybe a 10MHz or 30 meter.
I use to have one kind of like that in the attic of my house when I dabbled in HAM with Boy Scouts.

[Gunnar Alquist]

When I was very young I had a crystal radio set...

A crystal radio set? Just how old are you anyway? :cool:

[Jim Luttrall]

Old enough to write with a Quill pen;)

[Bruce Breedlove]

When I was very young I had a crystal radio set with antenna wire strung through our attic in our house up in New York south of Buffalo - I could listen to people all over with that thing ...

I found this picture of Jerry in his bedroom with that crystal radio set. :D

[H.G. Watson, Sr.]

SP's on track. Its an antenna.

Looks like vermiculite (zonalite, etc.) up with that fiberglass batt. Right up against the vent stack too. Hope you had your respirator and PPE suit on.