Be very very careful. If that thing gets away, you are dragging 300 feet of
wire across the landscape -- including power lines. Even if it goes straight
up at first, it will come down eventually and the potential for killing
someone is very great.
If you must do this . . . You should have a strong tether line (no matter how
strong your wire, it should not be the only thing holding the balloon). You
need a second line that has no strain on it so it will not be the first to
break. It should have a slip knot at the top that will untie the antenna if
the balloon gets away. Then, the wire will fall to the ground and not get
hung up in the high power lines four miles away.
Anyone else have any ideas?
Radio K4IA
Craig Buck
Fredericksburg, Virginia
K1#470 QRPARCI #2550
FISTS 6702 CC 788
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