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).
“[Young people] are high-minded because they have not yet been humbled by life, nor have they experienced the force of circumstances. … They think they know everything, and are always quite sure about it.”
Researchers have made a significant advance in designing a “mini gene” treatment for Usher Syndrome (summary, and published paper below). What’s amazing about this is the level of understanding of the chemistry, genes, biochemistry, structural biology, etc. needed design the result. The work was funded directly by my family and many many others under the leadership of the Usher 1F collaborative. Money goes in one end, and science and therapies come out the other :-)
Psyching myself up to read “Nona the Ninth”. The first two books nearly fried my brain but in a good way. Now I’m worried I need to reread them to appreciate the latest. #books#bookstodon
“Spear”, by Nicola Griffith, just won the Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction from the LA Times. One of my favorite recent books. #books#bookstodon