Getting wire antennas up in the trees

7/2/2008 4:26:59 PM (1 comments) Add a comment Add Comment

What does everyone else do to get their wire antennas up when you don't have a tower for a support?

I have heard of wrist rockets, potato guns, bottles filled with water and bows and arrows. My personal choice is a 45 lb. recurve bow, a heavy fish arrow and a rod and reel with 20 lb. test line. I can easily and fairly accurately put a line up 70 feet over a convenient tree. I then attach a heavier line to the fishing line and pull it up. Pretty cheap since I had everything on hand and it only take a few minutes.

NG9R

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by KA6KBC 7/7/2008 8:13:09 AM

Hi Danny,

Back in my early - Young/Dumber Days :)

My brother and I tried a bow/arrow - First shot went high and Into the Tree a kept going across the Street and into the neighbor’s backyard :( Thinking about it now it was several hundred feet. We recovered the arrow a few days later and made sure the neighbor was ok :) Lucky we did not hit anything important. I can see the headline - Young HAM Radio Operator Kills neighbor while putting up an Antenna :(

After that we decided it was best to just climb the Trees, which had its own problems :o)

Thanks,

Bill - KA6KBC

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