I dunno two major commercial aviation items in the news this week, and not one fatality (from the commercial aircraft). Imagine if we applied this same safety regime to just about anything else …
@dcreemer Ah, yes, that makes sense. That's where you see me poking around the bags of tea wondering why I am making tea out of whatever random stuff that is, LOL.
After many delays, we finally got a long end-fed half-wave antenna wire up into the Very Tall Tree on the edge of our lot. We used a drone to lift fishing line up and over, and a weight to keep it below the prop blades. Then pulled a paracord line, then the antenna wire up. Secured with bungee and counterweights to allow for wind - fingers crossed 🤞on that. (Zoom in on the second photo to see the wire)
@dcreemer Drones are going to be the next thing for me. I used an EZ hang slingshot (https://ezhang.com/) with a fishing reel for many years, but I can't aim worth a darn anymore. A drone would allow placement exactly where I wanted and no danger of putting a fishing weight through my neighbors siding. 😩 Any recommendations for the type of drone?
@WB2EEE I can’t recommend one drone over another — I borrowed a friend’s drone (and the friend to pilot it!). We used a DJI Mavic Pro, which was fine — it had no problem lifting the line + weight. There are also remote control drop devices for these drones, but we just decided to try the “up, over, and down” approach, which worked ok. The on-drone view of positioning and ability to just stop & hold position is amazing. I’m going to research <250g drones for this as well (cheaper, less restrictions).
@dcreemer I’ll be there Sunday at noon. My favorite story is when we went there after the collapse of the #dotcom and the waiter said “You still have money to eat?”