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Getting it up - M0YNG.uk

Created 2015-07-19

Modified 2019-09-21

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Amateur Radio

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Icom radio, battery, and aerial pole, attached to the trig point with rolling hills behind [IMG]

After much weeping and gnashing of teeth, lost tennis balls, and probably very confused and suspicious neighbours, I had all but given up on my plan to get the half sized G5RV up in the air.

Then a friend came to visit! And I know he really is a friend, because he didn't think the idea of recovering a tennis ball which had got stuck on the roof with a 10m carbon fibre fishing rod was completely stupid.

My plan had been, in light of the lack of required space to fit the G5RV in, to throw a tennis ball, with rope attached, over the house roof, attach the end of the aerial to it, then pull that up and over as far as needed. However, tennis balls and string are surprisingly hard to throw successfully over a house, and the tennis ball had got stuck, several times, when trying to pull it back again.

The new plan was to tie the string to the 10m fishing rod, and carefully lift it over the house. This didn't work, the string kept falling off the rod and getting stuck, so we gave up on that.

Then my friend had a great idea, to throw the tennis ball over a part of the house that was lower down, then use the rod to lift it over the very top. It worked, very well!

The best bit about this was we got out the PMR handsets, which came in very helpful when we began to hoist the aerial over the roof, as there was a house in the way, neither of us could see everything that was going on.

So, what do I have now?

A half sized G5RV, one end attached to a telescopic aluminium pole, with a flag on it, and the other end going over the top of my roof, and about 20% of the way down the other side again. The feeder is pretty much the perfect length to reach the remove matching unit, so it has all fitted quite well.

Performance wise, the aerial is doing quite well. I've had no issue working people on 20m data (PSK and JT65) even hearing and being heard in Brazil and Chile, but haven't yet had any voice contacts.

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