[TowerTalk] Antennas in trees

[kb2m at arrl.net]

I spray paint my sinkers dayglo orange or red. I happen to have a couple of
cans laying around from my son's Estes rocket days. Great colors to help
find rockets(or sinkers) in the woods :-)

73 Jeff kb2m


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From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of
n0tt1 at juno.com
Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2015 17:04 PM
To: kb2m at arrl.net; TowerTalk at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Antennas in trees

FWIW...I've found that a sinker is hard to see in "dark"
trees like pines unless I wrapped it in ordinary masking tape.
Of course other bright tape would work too.

73,
Charlie, N0TT
 
On Sun, 2 Aug 2015 09:22:00 -0400 <kb2m at arrl.net> writes:
>  I used to use a slingshot to shoot a sinker on a piece of fishing 
> line, over the limb. But now I just cast the sinker over the limb of 
> interest with a short fishing pole. The sinker will return to ground 
> much better then the arrow. I guess what method you use depends on how 
> accurate you can cast :-)
> 
> 73 Jeff kb2m
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of 
> ve4xt at mymts.net
> Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2015 19:03 PM
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> Subject: [TowerTalk] Antennas in trees
> 
> Anyone have any advice for getting the fishing line to come back to 
> ground zero?
> 
> I have no problem getting the line over a nice, tall branch but the 
> arrow and tennis ball get caught up on the way back down. If I'm 
> lucky, I can snap the line and retrieve the arrow, but that's only 
> happened once.
> 
> I don't exactly have a bucket truck guy to call where I am (cottage). 
> And I'm running out of cheap arrows.
> 
> Kelly
> ve4xt
> 
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