[Antennaware] Balloon vertical

[Ted Bohrer]

Hello Group,
How many things can go wrong by sending a helium balloon up carrying 
a long wire for a vertical antenna? It would be for 20 M - 10 M.

I can do this in a marshy area near Newport Beach. At least there are 
no electrical or telephone lines in the area.
At the bottom of the proposed contraption is my Sebring convertible 
with a 706 in it.

Would I throw the ground radial into the saltwater 100' away?

Has anybody braved this portable excuse for an antenna?


-- 
73,
Ted	N7QY
Always make the antenna as long as possible, and erect it as high as 
possible. --- and if such an antenna stays up, it's too small.