[TowerTalk] Antenna launcher found

[K5CG]

For Winter Field Day this year I used my UAV (a DJI Mavic Pro) to pull a fishing line over a tree as a messenger line, then used that to pull up a proper rope, and then a dipole. The antenna was placed exactly where I wanted it and in about 10 minutes. 

You can see a video clip of this operation at https://www.facebook.com/k5rwk/videos/vb.1557768091160150/1831908933746063/?type=2&theater 

It was so easy I'll never use a slingshot/launcher/fishing rod (by itself) ever again. 

73 
Danny 
K5CG 
SKCC #14257 

> From: "Jim Brown" <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com>
> To: towertalk at contesting.com
> Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2017 8:22:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Antenna launcher found

> Here's the original designer/seller of this type of launcher.

> http://www.antennalaunchers.com/antlaunching.html

> He's been selling them for at least ten years. Several guys around here
> own one of them, and they work VERY well. When I moved to W6 in 2006,
> K2RD brought his over to help me hang a dipole between a couple of my
> redwood trees. His first shot cleared the tallest redwood on my property
> by at least 10 ft. The tree is at least 175 ft tall.

> 73, Jim K9YC