Gary, I discovered that my throwing arm isn't worth anything when I had a spool of 14 gauge wire hit me in the head... I'll need to come up with a way to lob something over a high branch and go from there...
73, Joshua Gould K8WXA EM89pn On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 3:07 PM, Gary Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Congratulations on the KX3! > > To get a wire over the tallest tree on the first attempt and that > includes a Redwood, look at what I do at the bottom of my QRZ page. I > got the idea from a QST article a few years ago and then built on the > idea. > > It will make the setup much faster than you could ever hope to do. > > 73, > > Gary > KA1J > > > > Well, my wait is over. My KX3 is in my hands. So far, I've gone to > a park and stung some wire up (in response I saw a very confused old > man drive by...) and tried to make some contacts off the internal > batteries. It didn't help that I was in a valley as well. My wire was > at most 6 feet off the ground, I'm sure that didn't help either. I > can't wait to get home and hook the radio to the G5RV on the roof and > the power supply and see what I can work. > > > > See you on the bands > > > > Joshua Gould > > K8WXA > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > ______________________________________________________________ > > 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 > > Message delivered to [email protected] > > > > > > > --- > This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus > protection is active. > http://www.avast.com > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 > Message delivered to [email protected] > ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected]
