[Elecraft] Portable Wire Antenna Weight

[Rex Lint]

"Because a tree's branches are used as hoist points for the pole on the way
up, the pole must not weigh too much when placing a line in a tall pine,
whose lower branches have long gone leaving short "branch stumps"."



Geoff, why are you hoisting the pole up the tree?  Aren't you just using it
to throw the weighted line over (hopefull) the top of the tree?

      -Rex-
 
       K1HI
       Rex Lint
       Merrimack, NH
       WWW.QRZ.COM/db/k1hi 

 


-----Original Message-----
From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Geoffrey
Mackenzie-Kennedy
Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2011 8:58 AM
To: Elecraft Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Portable Wire Antenna Weight

FWIW my favourite method to place a line in a tree makes use of a strong but

light fibreglass pole almost 10m in length, through which runs a drop line. 
It does takes longer to place a line than when using a missile system, about

an hour to place a line at 100ft in a tall pine exactly where one wants it 
so not very useful when operating "portable". Because a tree's branches are 
used as hoist points for the pole on the way up, the pole must not weigh too

much when placing a line in a tall pine, whose lower branches have long gone

leaving short "branch stumps".

73,
Geoff
GM4ESD












______________________________________________________________
Elecraft mailing list
Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft
Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
Post: mailto:Elecraft at mailman.qth.net

This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html