[Lowfer] U.A.V. antenna launcher....

[Dave Brown]

Warren
OK- understood.    Interesting its been done and written up somewhere-not 
see a QST in a year or three.  Must be a case of 'great minds......' 
Nah- dont want to go there!!
I guess I might track down more details as it certainly should be better 
than vainly firing slingshots or arrows etc and hoping it might do the 
trick. I think I've convinced my son to get a remote controlled release 
gadget in the next lot of copter spares he gets  from China but will have to 
wait and see.
73
 Dave, ZL3FJ


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Warren" <k2ors at verizon.net>
To: "Discussion of the Lowfer (US, European, & UK) and MedFer bands" 
<lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2014 10:38 AM
Subject: Re: [Lowfer] U.A.V. antenna launcher....


> Dave,
>
>   Further to my earlier response. This idea of using a UAV to hoist a wire 
> antenna  is not new or unique, I know of several hams who have done this 
> sucessfully.
> Some Canadian hams had a short write-up in QST magazine (in the Strays 
> column) where the did exactly the same thing, and I know of a ham in Maine 
> who has used a quadcopter to loft antennas in trees.
>
> 73 Warren
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dave Brown" <tractorb at ihug.co.nz>
> To: "Discussion of the Lowfer (US, European, & UK) and MedFer bands" 
> <lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2014 3:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [Lowfer] U.A.V. antenna launcher....
>
>
>> Hi Warren- I was just suggesting this method to my son the other day- 
>> he's heavily into multi-rotor stuff and has quite a bit of it.  He was 
>> somewhat sceptical.... Question- In your case, was the 'pilot' 
>> experienced and were the control issues anything to do with the loading 
>> of the trailing 'string'??
>> 73
>> Dave, ZL3FJ
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Warren K2ORS" <k2ors at verizon.net>
>> To: "lo >> Discussion of the Lowfer (US, European, & UK) and MedFer 
>> bands" <lowfer at mailman.qth.net>; "600MRG" <600mrg at w7ekb.com>
>> Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2014 7:19 AM
>> Subject: [Lowfer] U.A.V. antenna launcher....
>>
>>
>>> Attempted to use an 8 rotor U.A.V, to lift a string over the trees with 
>>> which an antenna wire could be pulled up. However, there were some 
>>> control issues...
>>>
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D35NXIETq-k&feature=youtu.be
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> 73 Warren K2ORS
>>>
>>>
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