[Elecraft] A big brown truck showed up with a little box...

[Joshua Gould]

Gary,

I discovered that my throwing arm isn't worth anything when I had a spool
of 14 gauge wire hit me in the head...  I'll need to come up with a way to
lob something over a high branch and go from there...



73,
Joshua Gould
K8WXA
EM89pn

On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 3:07 PM, Gary Smith <Gary at ka1j.com> wrote:

> Congratulations on the KX3!
>
> To get a wire over the tallest tree on the first attempt and that
> includes a Redwood, look at what I do at the bottom of my QRZ page. I
> got the idea from a QST article a few years ago and then built on the
> idea.
>
> It will make the setup much faster than you could ever hope to do.
>
> 73,
>
> Gary
> KA1J
>
>
> > Well, my wait is over. My KX3 is in my hands. So far, I've gone to
> a park and stung some wire up (in response I saw a very confused old
> man drive by...) and tried to make some contacts off the internal
> batteries. It didn't help that I was in a valley as well. My wire was
> at most 6 feet off the ground, I'm sure that didn't help either. I
> can't wait to get home and hook the radio to the G5RV on the roof and
> the power supply and see what I can work.
> >
> > See you on the bands
> >
> > Joshua Gould
> > K8WXA
> >
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