Absolutely. I have used bows/arrows, slings, etc, but a 9 ft fishing
pole, 10lb test, and a golf ball with a screw eye attached had allowed
me to place lines up to 60 feet routinely on backpacking QRP trips.
Plus the pole later froms part of a delta loop.
bb n6iz
Sandy W5TVW wrote:
I've had my best results with a 1 oz teardrop weight {painted dayglo orange!}
and a common spinning rod with 6lb monofilament line! Usually I can
cast it over the limb of my choice in 2-3 tries. Regularly get it over 50' plus
trees this way.
73,
Sandy W5TVW
----- Original Message -----
From: "Trevor Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <elecraft@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 7:11 AM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Line into trees
| In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, J F
| <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
|
| snip
| >Somewhere I've seen a design for a compressed air
| >tennis ball line throwing "gun", which looks like it
| >could be fun.
| >
| >cheers,
| >Julius
| >n2wn
| >
| Although I haven't tried it, one of the larger variety of 'spud guns'
| may be useful for this. I have one which fires a spud section around
| 200 yards when powered by 'high octane' hair spray :-)
|
| The problem would appear to be how to attach the line to the spud.
| Perhaps a light basket shaped mesh material loosely arranged over the
| muzzle of the gun with a light line attached.
|
| I have just done a swift 'google' , and plans for the combustion and
| compressed air versions can be found here http://tinyurl.com/44rwh and
| at several other sites.
|
| Trev G3ZYY
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