I use a child's bow and arrow set I purchased at REI along with a cheap
Zebco fishing real. Connect the fishing line to the end of the arrow,
open the Zebco up so that it will "cast" and you can zing an arrow into
and through a tree to the height of about 60` very accurately.
The weight of the arrow will bring it to the ground.
Just connect light weight nylon string to the end of the fishing line
and real it in. Then attach the heavier weight rope you are going to
use to hold up the antenna and pull it up.
-Tim
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On 7/16/2011 10:57 PM, Rick McClelland, AA5S wrote:
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.
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Fort Collins, CO
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