> 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 ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
