I saw a posting not long ago from a guy who hung a wire antenna by using a golf ball with some type of small turnbuckle driven through to hold a fishing line. Today, I tried using a golf ball and a cotter pin that I bought from Home Depot. I used a C-clamp vice-grip to hold the ball as I drilled a hole through the center. The cotter pin fit perfectly and was nearly flush with the golf ball on both sides. I bought a couple hundred yard roll of fishing line and pulled about 100 feet onto the ground, cut it from the roll and tied it to the cotter pin. I'm not a great athlete but I was able to zing the golf ball about 40' up into a willow tree and pull my rope through.
I've been at my present QTH for about two months and my temporary antenna had been a single band 40 meter end fed dipole at 20' but now I have a 2 band end fed (Par Electronics EF-20/40) at 40'. This is a nice improvement and it was much cheaper using a golf ball than buying a super-de-duper, tennis-ball rocket launching contraption to accomplish the same thing. Admittedly, the super-de-duper tennis ball rocket launching contraption can get a line 100' into a tree but if your needs are more modest, I recommend a golf ball, a cotter pin and hand launching the golf ball. It works in some fairly challenging situations. --- Rick McClelland, AA5S Fort Collins, CO _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/
