OK Tom... fortunately my kids are all well established and won't be
demanding house room (and the XYL is G3SGL so can't really complain can
she!) and thanks Tracey for reminding me of Youtube. Just the job. My son in
law has a pocket-sized drone so light string and a small weight over two of
our trees and judicious pulling the wire aerial should do the trick.
When the long wire fell down I didn't bother putting it back up because of
bad RF interference.

I'm now thinking of getting a TinySA to detect and analyse interference
sources.
My suspicion is my neighbour has an unused smart meter which is messing up
HF.
When his house supply tripped off the MF and HF bands suddenly cleaned up,
but my portable radio isn't good enough to figure out exactly what's going
on.
Has anyone had any success using one for this purpose I wonder?
Allan G3PIY

Apologies Allan, I forgot you were the Radio Museum!
I'm on my own now in a  5-bedroom modern house. The second floor is one large attic room, half guest bedroom, half shack. I no longer TX but I have 3 analogue radios and two SDRs.
One problem I have I is that since my wife passed away last month, technically half the house belongs to our two children who are constantly reminding me of that fact. Well, they can pay for half the maintenance
My current antenna feeders come into the house at the bedroom end of the top floor and there is plenty of excess. It will be a simple matter to push/pull the feeders out and pop them through a new hole into the living room two floors below.
Planning for the future if I find I can no longer climb the stairs.

Tom G6PZZ

-----Original Message-----
From: main@SDR-Radio.groups.io <main@SDR-Radio.groups.io> On Behalf Of Allan Isaacs
Sent: 10 August 2021 13:56
To: main@SDR-Radio.groups.io
Subject: Re: [SDR-Radio] Teaser

Not far off our current house Tom
2 actual bedrooms
4 more for radio collection plus conservatory (=2nd workshop + around 50 more radios) Double garage = main workshop + a few hundred more radios and shack The main difference is there's an 80m dipole and a long wire which has come adrift.
No cellar (which would have been for wine if we had one)

Question: has anyone used a drone to erect a long wire in trees perhaps using a ball of string for starters?
Allan G3PIY


-----Original Message-----
From: main@SDR-Radio.groups.io [mailto:main@SDR-Radio.groups.io] On Behalf Of Tom Crosbie G6PZZ
Sent: 10 August 2021 13:39
To: main@SDR-Radio.groups.io
Subject: Re: [SDR-Radio] Teaser

I make Allan's house as follows:
Cellar = Workshop
1 Bedroom for Mr and Mrs Issacs
I bedroom for guests
4 bedrooms for radio shacks split HF,VHF, DATA, SWL

Tom G6PZZ

Two sain simons... Now guess what happens when they meet for a beer in ferryboat inn...

Muahaha :-) 

Am 10.08.2021 13:15 schrieb Simon Brown <simon@...>:

Simon,

Stay away. Stay far, far away. We have enough nutters down here already,
I've added to the ranks and no more are needed.

Simon Brown, G4ELI
https://www.sdr-radio.com

-----Original Message-----
From: main@SDR-Radio.groups.io <main@SDR-Radio.groups.io> On Behalf Of Mag
loop Simon
Sent: 10 August 2021 11:42
To: main@sdr-radio.groups.io
Subject: Re: [SDR-Radio] Teaser

Simon

Just to let you know. I am the only sain person in this world..( he says
while taking 2 weeks holiday to lay new laminate flooring, remove 100 yrs of
various paint from original pine doors and frames, ( so can be varnished)
paint the outside of house,etc  while building the new gk71 based 1kw amp..)
Cornwall here we come..

Simon g0zen








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Question: has anyone used a drone to erect a long wire in trees perhaps
using a ball of string for starters?

I make Allan's house as follows:
Cellar = Workshop
1 Bedroom for Mr and Mrs Issacs
I bedroom for guests
4 bedrooms for radio shacks split HF,VHF, DATA, SWL

Tom G6PZZ

And just in case no one has noticed, not SCRC Simon's callsign can be read as GO ZEN, a chilled out guy maybe. But a 1kW amp will double Cornwall's energy needs.

-----Original Message-----
From: main@SDR-Radio.groups.io <main@SDR-Radio.groups.io> On Behalf Of Mag loop Simon
Sent: 10 August 2021 13:26
To: main@sdr-radio.groups.io
Subject: Re: [SDR-Radio] Teaser

Hi Allan

Well our house is abit more modest!
But wish i had not started stripping!
1/2 done..so much mess, sore hands etc.. BUT some finished and sooooo much better..idea is to get best £ for house soon.just hoping ( expect they will) house prices here in London keep up with rising Cornwall prices..

Not sdrc Simon

Simon,

Stay away. Stay far, far away. We have enough nutters down here already,
I've added to the ranks and no more are needed.

Simon Brown, G4ELI
https://www.sdr-radio.com

-----Original Message-----
From: main@SDR-Radio.groups.io <main@SDR-Radio.groups.io> On Behalf Of Mag
loop Simon
Sent: 10 August 2021 11:42
To: main@sdr-radio.groups.io
Subject: Re: [SDR-Radio] Teaser

Simon

Just to let you know. I am the only sain person in this world..( he says
while taking 2 weeks holiday to lay new laminate flooring, remove 100 yrs of
various paint from original pine doors and frames, ( so can be varnished)
paint the outside of house,etc  while building the new gk71 based 1kw amp..)
Cornwall here we come..

Simon g0zen








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