So, the weather is beautiful. No wind to speak of. Time to shoot some new lines into the trees before they get leafed out. The program was set to put the doublet about 30 feet or so more in the air--so that it would be at least 60' at the feed point. I mounted the new Saunders archery reel on the 2.5" connector to the tennis ball gun--loaded with 50lb Spectra line. The first discovery is that 60 psi was a bit much. It shot through the spot I wanted in the tree, over the tops of the neighbors trees, and fell into the lot of the house on the other side of him. Hmmmm. Luckily it pulled through back to my yard.
Time to pull the old line back out of the tree, and drop it in my front yard to be retied to the new line. The antenna runs over the house, so I put the weighted tennis ball on the end of the line and pulled. After catching on a small branch that gave it stored energy, the ball flew loose and did the bolo around another limb a few feet in front of it. I have cut the line off as high as I can--this has now become a permanent feature in the front yard. Maybe I could hang a bird feeder or planter from it...
Obviously this is not going anything like planned. Now I need to shoot a line over the top of the house to get to the antenna. As they say, tomorrow is another day.
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