Naval Radio Transmitter Facility Grindavik

A limited number of replacement coils were available in the supply system and were, in turn, installed and similarly destroyed.

HQ started the actions necessary to procure such a coil, while the COMSTA CO, CAPT Ralph L Spaulding, a graduate of the Naval Post Graduate School in Communications Engineering, designed a temporary coil with the appropriate characteristics, and the crew at Grindavik built it.

This arrangement worked well, except that an occasional arc between the output port and the copper coated internal wall of the helix house would trip the transmitter off the air.

[2] The new taller antenna and helix house were structurally designed by Donald W. Anderson, PE[3][self-published source?]

who additionally managed the design and construction programs while employed at Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC), Atlantic.

[6][not specific enough to verify] In November 2023, Grindavik and the areas around were placed under a state of emergency and evacuated due to the threat of a volcanic eruption.