What do others use to launch support string for dipoles over trees? I am looking at ~60 foot trees at my new QTH. I'd like to get my 40M dipole up there. Slingshots? Bows and arrows? Something else?
What do others use to launch support string for dipoles over trees? I am looking at ~60 foot trees at my new QTH. I'd like to get my 40M dipole up there. Slingshots? Bows and arrows? Something else?
I use an 8' spinning rod with open-faced reel and a plastic weight that probably weighs a couple of ounces. Easily goes up over my 50' tree. Being an infrequent fisherman since moving to SoCal, however, it usually takes me a couple of tries to put the line where I want it.
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All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
I've had the EZ Hang for a few years. The latest model is here: https://www.ezhang.com/index.php
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This. ^^ But with only one try. ROOKIEOriginally Posted by KJ6BSO
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How well do you do when you're in Minnesota? Why don't you go there and find out?
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
I built the CSVI9 Antenna Launcher Kit
It's a little overkill for your immediate uses, but I've shot lines over 90-100' trees with fairly low pressure.
And 30' trees with even less. Max is pushing 200'. Besides, it's fun as hell to use.
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"Where would we be without the agitators of the world to attach the electrodes
of knowledge to the nipples of ignorance?" ~ Professor "Dick" Soloman
Something about a mouse and elephant gun comes to mind....I built the CSVI9 Antenna Launcher Kit
It's a little overkill for your immediate uses, but I've shot lines over 90-100' trees with fairly low pressure.
And 30' trees with even less. Max is pushing 200'. Besides, it's fun as hell to use.
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"If someone tells you he believes in and talks to an invisible bunny named Harvey, you put him on medication and a regimen of therapy. If someone tells you he believes in and talks to God, well, that's perfectly acceptable. Why that's the case is impossible for me to fathom." - WP2XX
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That's why I like it.
There is only one way to do it. The way real men put up antennas. They climb the tree to the very top and hang the aerial.
I keep my 2 feet on the ground, and my head in the twilight zone.
Agreed. Hell, when I used to go squirrel hunting, I always took my Weatherby .460 Magnum. Wouldn't do to have a wounded squirrel going rogue, you know.
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
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