I suggested this about two years ago as a DXpedition antenna for 160m.
With the right drone, it could hold up enough wire to continuously power
it, and with GPS it would automatically adjust for varying wind. It's
not a backpacking antenna, though ... far too much weight.
Dave AB7E
On 7/20/2015 12:39 AM, David Anderson wrote:
On 19 Jul 2015, at 17:45, Wayne Burdick asked
Is the best antenna for backpacking a very small magnetic loop? A cleverly
designed, center-loaded telescoping whip? A length of #30 wire lofted by a
small helium balloon? (Or, more intriguingly, some combination of these?)
How about a higher tech solution than a balloon or kite?
With the rise of the ubiquitous miniature drone you could take aloft a wire, or even
with a pair of them suspend a horizontal dipole. Then there is the possibility of
having synchronised pairs of drones suspending a multi element Yagi, which can be
rotated, height varied to suit desired desired take off angle, element lengths reeled
in and out to change bands. <patent pending>
73
David Anderson GM4JJJ
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