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Raising an antenna support with a drone

Posted: 03 Mar 2022 09:14 PM PST http://blog.marxy.org/2022/03/raising-antenna-support-with-drone.html

This week I had visits from several hams including Dave, VK3ASE, who
brought a long squid pole and an offer to help with antenna raising.
Dallas, VK3EB, helped with the off centre fed dipole. I decided to try
raising a line over a nice clear tree branch with a drone rather than the
squid pole. The drone could lift the line without problem, the issue (which
I anticipated), was landing again on the

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