[Elecraft] Portable Wire Antenna Weight

[Brendan Minish]

Geoff
Can you explain how this system works in a bit more detail? I have some
very high trees to use but because of clutter and the shapes of the
trees I have never had much luck getting a line over the higher branches

I do have a 10m pole and would be more than willing to invest an hour or
two to get a line over a choice upper branch    


On Sun, 2011-06-19 at 13:58 +0100, Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy wrote:
> 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
> 

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Brendan EI6IZ