[Elecraft] Line into trees

[Charles Greene]

To Julius and Trevor,

Although I am not recommending it, on several field days some of us used  a 
"mortar" made by by welding a base on a 3" pipe with a small hole in the 
rear which was filled up with acetylene and oxygen from an oxy-acetylene 
torch.  The projectile was a regulation baseball with an eye screw screwed 
in, attached to a few hundred feet of thin nylon line.  When loaded, the 
oxy-acetylene mixture was ignited by the lighted torch.  We were looking 
for height not distance, and managed to top some 100' trees.  Can you 
envision an extended double zepp on 40 at 80'?

Chas,  W1CG

At 08:11 AM 9/10/2004, Trevor Day wrote:
>In message <20040910114548.39989.qmail at web40808.mail.yahoo.com>, J F 
><phriendly1 at yahoo.com> writes
>
>snip
>>Somewhere I've seen a design for a compressed air
>>tennis ball line throwing "gun", which looks like it
>>could be fun.
>>
>>cheers,
>>Julius
>>n2wn
>Although I haven't tried it, one of the larger variety of 'spud guns' may 
>be useful for this.  I have one which fires a spud section around 200 
>yards when powered by 'high octane' hair spray :-)
>
>The problem would appear to be how to attach the line to the spud. Perhaps 
>a light basket shaped mesh material loosely arranged over the muzzle of 
>the gun with a light line attached.
>
>I have just done a swift 'google' , and plans for the combustion and 
>compressed air versions can be found here http://tinyurl.com/44rwh  and at 
>several other sites.
>
>Trev G3ZYY
>--
>Trevor Day
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