[TowerTalk] Quadcopter

Big Don bigdon39 at gmail.com
Sat Oct 4 21:55:52 EDT 2014


CAUTION: From years of bitter yourhful experience with model airplanes and
also kites, what you really bad don't want to do is get your copter stuck
way way up in a tree snarled with bunch of monofilament that, say, snagged
in a prop during a control perturbation and/or wind gust.......GL   73, Don
 N7EF

On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 9:10 PM, Tom LeClerc W1TJL <wb1cby at gmail.com> wrote:

> I just finished having my stepson build one for me with a line release.
> Just got it last week and have not tried it yet.  Still want to be more
> adept at flying it...  Tomorrow though I'll (weather permitting) send it up
> with my Mobius camera to take some pics of my horizon at say 100 to 150
> ft...  Since it is new to me baby steps. Cost too much to crash it for no
> reason...  LOL
>
> 73, Tom W1TJL
>
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> On 10/4/2014 12:17 PM, Lew Sayre wrote:
>
>> Has anybody here devised a way to use a quadcopter with some sort of
>> release relay to put a light line over a tall tree for a wire antenna?
>> I've used a pneumatic gun in the past with great success but wonder if the
>> quadcopter might be a bit more accurate way to get maximum height out of
>> the tree.
>>     Thanks,
>> 73 and I remain,
>>     Lew    W7EW
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