Managed to get my 100ft antenna up the tree! Briefly listened to some old dudes almost a thousand miles away in Vancouver, talking about their radio equipment
Managed to get my 100ft antenna up the tree! Briefly listened to some old dudes almost a thousand miles away in Vancouver, talking about their radio equipment
Put a wire coat hanger in a kind of harness around a drone, with two little hook hands
String some 100lb+ test fishing line over the hook hands (important: 2 separate spools, tied together in the middle. Otherwise it will get impossibly tangled). Put the spools as far apart as possible.
Fly the drone over the top of the tree, with the fishing line forming a kind of inverted U shape
Shake the drone around until the fishing line falls off the hooks
Tie some paracord to the fishing line; pull the paracord up by pulling the other end of the fishing line, until you run out of fishing line (so it's all been replaced with paracord)
Tie one end of a 107ft wire to the paracord; keep pulling until the end of the wire is hanging near the ground
Tie off both ends of paracord; hook up the wire to the rest of your antenna system.
Put a wire coat hanger in a kind of harness around a drone, with two little hook hands
String some 100lb+ test fishing line over the hook hands (important: 2 separate spools, tied together in the middle. Otherwise it will get impossibly tangled). Put the spools as far apart as possible.
Fly the drone over the top of the tree, with the fishing line forming a kind of inverted U shape
Shake the drone around until the fishing line falls off the hooks
Tie some paracord to the fishing line; pull the paracord up by pulling the other end of the fishing line, until you run out of fishing line (so it's all been replaced with paracord)
Tie one end of a 107ft wire to the paracord; keep pulling until the end of the wire is hanging near the ground
Tie off both ends of paracord; hook up the wire to the rest of your antenna system.
Worked great, though it took a few tries to get the steps right! I'm pretty proud of getting it to work.
Ben Weinstein-Raun
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Ben Weinstein-Raun
2024-10-14 02:47:23
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in reply to Soccum Speleodontidae • •well, the top part is ~100ft up! superstimul.us/display/19e8876… for drone video of the tree.
Technique:
- Put a wire coat hanger in a kind of harness around a drone, with two little hook hands
- String some 100lb+ test fishing line over the hook hands (important: 2 separate spools, tied together in the middle. Otherwise it will get impossibly tangled). Put the spools as far apart as possible.
- Fly the drone over the top of the tree, with the fishing line forming a kind of inverted U shape
- Shake the drone around until the fishing line falls off the hooks
- Tie some paracord to the fishing line; pull the paracord up by pulling the other end of the fishing line, until you run out of fishing line (so it's all been replaced with paracord)
- Tie one end of a 107ft wire to the paracord; keep pulling until the end of the wire is hanging near the ground
- Tie off both ends of paracord; hook up the wire to the rest of your antenna system.
... show morewell, the top part is ~100ft up! superstimul.us/display/19e8876… for drone video of the tree.
Technique:
Worked great, though it took a few tries to get the steps right! I'm pretty proud of getting it to work.
Ben Weinstein-Raun
2024-10-03 19:16:05
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