<< Anyone have any safe and fairly effective ideas on launching dipoles
into trees? I have numerous trees that go up a good 60 or 65 feet, but
no way to really get anything up there. A cherry picker or fire truck
is sort of out of the question, I can't afford that stuff.
>>
Two locals - Fred K7NZ and Don N7OTV are famous in these parts for installing
160 Meter delta loops in trees.
Don and his able assistant Fred use an 8 foot 3 legged ladder. They attach
aproximately 3 feet of heavy surgical tubing to each side of the top plate and
terminate the tubing in a rubber pouch.
Getting under the tree, they align the slope of the ladder to their target
limb, load it with a 4 oz fishing weight tied with monofiliment fishing line
to a spinning reel, and fire away.
They can easily achieve accurate launches of up to 125' height.
It's pretty simple but works amazingly well.
73
Ron
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QSL Systems and Contest Aids
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