this putting antennas up stuff is hard on the body.

[N3DRB The Derb]

I used to use the triangular fishing sinkers one would use for catfish. replace the spindly arrowhead with that big mutha expoxied in place.

Just gotta go find a bow somwhere. I think me and the wifey are gonna hit a gander mountain soon. I got some of that Rescue Tape
at the fester yesterday to wx the feedline-dipole connections. Stuff is great, better than coax seal. I got other stuff too.

[KB2WIG]

The trips to Walley World are always interesting… The clerk said that they don’t carry anything like that anymore. Drove over to Dick’s Sporting Goods. They just looked at me funny. 

I wanted the slingshot as I figured it would be the cheapest way to go. I had used the swinging pipe wrench in the past. But now I only have access to one wrench as the others are too far up the tree to get. I do have a chain saw, but then I’d have to clean up the mess.

A trip to visit my father’s produced a bow. Back in the 60’s my brother found a fiberglass bow, minus the string, in the trash. He waxed up some thread, and we used the bow to put holes in the siding of our neighbor’s garage wall. The hay bale up against the wall did not offer as much protection as we thought it wood. (Norm, K2KLV, said it looked like there was a firing squad visiting)…

Anyway it was back to Dicks to buy some cheep arrows. They had some ‘luminum arrows and some practice tips. Went home, and I can’t find any fishing tackle. Back to Wally World. Bought some 10# plastic line and a fishing reel; now were ready to go. The 10# stuff can’t carry much weight so it was back to Walleyes for some heavier stuff. I was able to put a line over the tree that has one end of the 80m dipole attached to it. (This is the one that has the child’s aluminum bat as a counter weight at one end. The green weed whacker line is a good insulator.) I’m hoping to get the dipole up higher than the current 15 feet. Anyway, the 2nd try with the fishing reel tied to the tree branch with 3M 33 and taped to the arrow did not work so well. After 40ish years, the string gave up and so did I. That was last April, and now that antenna weather is approaching, I’ll go to Dick’s and see if they have some string for my bow. If not, I guess I’ll purchase a recurve, and then inform the neighbors.

klc

[ka3zlr]

Boys Bow an Arrow very simple clean add a little weight onto the arrow Re-Balance it an Fire it off..