EH> EH>> At one of the club meetings I attended early on they had a video of
EH> EH>> an Arizona radio club erecting an antenna farm using a hot air
EH> EH>> balloon. They even had a 160M 4 element beam they put up. They had
EH> EH>> to do all the balloon work early in the morning before the
EH> EH>> temperature made it impossible to lift more than the basket and
EH> EH>> operator. Nothing like having unlimited space out in the
open desert
EH> EH>> for an antenna farm.

EH> RW> YEp, would be a handy way to do it. REad another thing in
EH> RW> QST years ago about a guy and his group set up a combination kite and
EH> RW> small hot air balloon thing they called a kite-oon
EH> RW> which they used to support some sort of wire antenna for
EH> RW> field day. I'm thinking the mid-eighties when I read that.

EH>That's a cool idea. I know of a couple guys who used a couple large helium
EH>balloons to raise a wire antenna for field day, but it went down half way
EH>through the first day because of high winds. While it was up, they got some
EH>good contacts, though.

EH>In the early spring, the Radio Club of Tacoma used to hold a day of fun at a
EH>local park on the beach. Part of the festivities was an antenna contest. Peo
EH>would come up with some interesting antenna designs. One year some friends
EH>loaded up a slinky antenna and actually made contacts as far away as Michiga
EH>The way they did it, it was basically a 40 meter rubber ducky. The year befo
EH>they put up a delta that they fashioned to look like a huge martini glass. T
EH>even had a huge foam olive attached to it.

Ed,

From what You typed, I guess that Slinky Antenna was a Vertical instead
of a Dipole?

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EH> RW>>> As you can tell I moved this from politics here.

EH> EH>>> Good move, even though we were just about all there
was for traffic
EH> EH>>> there. LOL

EH> RW> Yah but it comes and goes there, where this one could use
EH> RW> some people actually talking about ham radio. I know there
EH> RW> are folks lurk here however.

EH>Maybe we can get some of those lurkers to actually post something.

I did!


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