On 8/3/2017 9:10 AM, Patrick Greenlee wrote:
Depending on the insulation on your wire and the position on the wire,
voltage node (peak or null) and power delivered to the antenna, you
might find RF going to the contacted vegetation.
Yes, and this is a real issue if you're running power. I have experience
with that.
Any chance you might be able to do a little pruning and avoid antenna
to tree contact?
A good solution that K2RD showed me is to use the launcher to get a
small line over a limb, use that to pull up something stronger, make
that a continuous loop over the limb to the ground, tie a pulley to that
loop, add a rope through the pulley, and pull the pulley up to the top.
That rope through the pulley holds your antenna (and it could be one end
of a dipole). Buy rope from http://ww5.synthetictextilesinc.com/
73, Jim K9YC
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