[TowerTalk] Wire antenna in trees?

[Kelly Taylor]

I’m intrigued by guys now using drones to set antennas into trees, seems it could be more precise than slingshots, arrows or spud guns.

How high are the trees? Since you’ll have to use support rope anyway, could you simply stop pulling when the insulator gets close to the tree? Or use a catenary to hold the wire away from the tree?

I take it from your tuner plan, it would be a random-length, end-fed wire?

73, kelly, ve4xt 



> On Aug 3, 2017, at 9:58 AM, K7LXC--- via TowerTalk <towertalk at contesting.com> wrote:
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> Howdy, TowerTalkians --
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>    I want to get on the air and I have a dense forest  behind me. No 
> supports available at this time so I can use an antenna  launcher of some sort to 
> get a wire up in the trees so I guess I just go for a  bunch of small 
> insulated wire (so it doesn't short out when it rains) and  feed it with a tuner? 
> Any hints, kinks or options to my plan? Wire vendors?  Tnx.
> 
> Cheers,
> Steve     K7LXC
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