The curious thing is that small consumer drones are getting to the point where for operations like SOTA, a drone with a couple of spare batteries could pretty easily support a full size 5/8 wire vertical fed against a couple of radial wires suspended a foot or two off the ground, and do so long enough to make quite a few contacts. Just support the bottom of the vertical and its feedpoint so that the drone only had to support the vertical wire and nothing else. Use a few feet of twine at the top to keep the drone away from the RF voltage at the end of the wire. Drones these days will even automatically hold their position in a 20 mph wind, although of course the more wind the less battery time.
I've even seen videos of SOTA guys who brought along a drone to record their operation ... the extra weight is minimal.
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