<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>If you're flying a dipole, just remember that the ends of a half-wave dipole are voltage peaks, so you really, really, REALLY have to keep people away from them. They float at a few kilovolts when you're transmitting at just 100W, and your kite is going to be wobbling around unless it's carefully tethered… it's a safety nightmare at the kite festival, but something I'd love to do at some point (<a href="http://forums.qrz.com/showthread.php?61367-Dipole-voltage">http://forums.qrz.com/showthread.php?61367-Dipole-voltage</a>)</div><div><br></div><div>Making a yagi light enough to fly with a feedline could be interesting. I'd probably go for a moxon or hex beam, myself, for ease of construction.</div><div>--</div><div>/jbm</div><div>73 de AJ9BM</div><br><div><div>On Jul 26, 2013, at 17:32 , "giovanni_re" <<a href="mailto:john_re@fastmail.us">john_re@fastmail.us</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">160m 1/2 wave dipole on a kite string?<br><br>Hang a Yagi 100m in the air?<br><br>1500W?<br><br>What could be done???<br><br><br>--<br>Amazing kites! Octopussies, boxes, serpents, rotary!<br>_Huge_ kites.<br><br>Come to the Berkeley Marina. :)<br><br><a href="http://www.highlinekites.com/pages/BERKELEY-KITE-FEST.html">http://www.highlinekites.com/pages/BERKELEY-KITE-FEST.html</a><br><br>Air hackers. ;)<br><br>Let me know if you'll attend & we can try to meet. - via direct email or<br>this list.<br><br>:)<br>_______________________________________________<br>Noisebridge-discuss mailing list<br>Noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net<br>https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss<br><br>--- Join the BerkeleyTIP-Global mail list - http://groups.google.com/group/BerkTIPGlobal. All Freedom SW, HW & Culture.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>CQ mailing list<br>CQ@lists.noisebridge.net<br>https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/cq<br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>