Geoff Can you explain how this system works in a bit more detail? I have some very high trees to use but because of clutter and the shapes of the trees I have never had much luck getting a line over the higher branches
I do have a 10m pole and would be more than willing to invest an hour or two to get a line over a choice upper branch On Sun, 2011-06-19 at 13:58 +0100, Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy wrote: > FWIW my favourite method to place a line in a tree makes use of a strong but > light fibreglass pole almost 10m in length, through which runs a drop line. > It does takes longer to place a line than when using a missile system, about > an hour to place a line at 100ft in a tall pine exactly where one wants it > so not very useful when operating "portable". Because a tree's branches are > used as hoist points for the pole on the way up, the pole must not weigh too > much when placing a line in a tall pine, whose lower branches have long gone > leaving short "branch stumps". > > 73, > Geoff > GM4ESD > -- 73 Brendan EI6IZ ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
