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Hauptmann reacted to Army Vet's post in the thread Interesting use for a drone...Ham Radio. with
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Very Cool! I have thought about flying a 26 gauge wire antenna up a couple of hundred feet and running WSPR on it and see what happens. 100 Watts may fry the bird LOL -
Hauptmann reacted to Army Vet's post in the thread Interesting use for a drone...Ham Radio. with Like.
Here is a quick description of my system. I use an old DJI Phantom 3 Standard. Mainly because of the large landing skids. The skids have a brace/camera protector between them. I fasten a stiff wire probe to the center of the brace. with about 4...
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Drones are a perfect tool for HAM radio! I’ve used my drone to lift my little Alinco DJ-C5 credit card radio hooked up to a RadioShack (RIP) simplex repeater above a canyon as a test to relay a signal over it to a buddy on the other side, and...
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Hauptmann reacted to Army Vet's post in the thread Interesting use for a drone...Ham Radio. with Like.
Roger that.
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Hauptmann reacted to Army Vet's post in the thread Interesting use for a drone...Ham Radio. with Like.
I will do that. I built a pneumatic launcher. And it worked. Just had issues with the line feeding properly. I finally figure out that laying the line out on the ground between me and the tree worked well. At which point I said hmmm I can pull...