Had a friend try a drone to drop a wire over a tree aside a lake. The drone
now resides at the bottom of the lake. Not sure what happened but know for
sure that drones fail to operate under water. ...just saying... - Mike
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From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of
Mickey Baker
Sent: Monday, December 18, 2017 7:22 PM
To: Henry Pollock - K4TMC
Cc: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Seeking info on Using Drones to put wires in trees
This is the problem with light drones and light lines - wind.
Once a gust lofts the line into a prop, flight ceases.
Actually a heavier drone and a heavier line works best, but you must have a
mechanism to take up tight line and control rates of descent carefully
rather than having it loft into the props. My best efforts at this have been
with twine with a 1 oz fishing weight guided through a wire tie loop at the
end of a 2' bamboo stick. It takes two crew - line hander and pilot.
Having tried this, I prefer the pneumatic tennis ball launcher method to
place lines in trees.
73,
Mickey N4MB
On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 2:51 PM, Henry Pollock - K4TMC <kilo4tmc@gmail.com>
wrote:
> For those of you who have used drones to get wires in or over trees, I
> am wondering if the cheaper units (less than $100) are adequate to
> lift a 10 -
> 15 lb test fishing line over a tree. Since these unit have flight
> times of
> 10 minutes or less, I could envision the weight of the dead drone
> being the drop weight to get the line end back to ground.
>
> Or, am I just dreaming...and should throw out all of those cost-saving
> holiday flyers from the box stores; and be thinking about a more
> expensive unit?
>
> 73,
> Henry - K4TMC
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