I want to sell all of my ham gear and buy DRONES!

[Tallman]

Just when I thought my money was safe along comes a video link sent to me by my son. Of all things it was a drone being used for fishing. The drone takes the line out and drops it into a school of Tuna fish. The guy who was manning the rod and reel didn't have to do much of anything except reel in a fish that had to weight at least 50 lbs, That was the coolest thing I have ever seen. Some of the drones I want to own cost less than my IC-7100 or my FT-857.

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?...C9634E1C3781CACDABDFC9634E1C3781CAC&FORM=VIRE

 

[Robb]

Sounds like that takes all the fun out of fishing to me - doesn't it?

 

[Tallman]

Not al all. Hunting and fishing are food gathering processes, it's not a sport to me.

 

[BBB]

Life imitates art, imitates life, imitating art I have purchased some quality radio related equipment from folks that were changing to the Drone aircraft hobby. Evidently, that drone $tuff can get Expen$ive in a hurry. I would assume directly proportional to ones ability to fly them in windier conditions.

 

[space cowboy]

 

[Tallman]

You betcha they get expensive in a hurry. I have been studying and the one I want is a DJI Mavic Pro. Range is 4.5 miles and flight time is 25 to 30 minutes. Price starts at 1000.00
Maybe I just need to sell some of my gear?

 

[222DBFL]

Tallman check out Tower Hobbies for drones as well. They sell a variety and some you can opt for a payment plan splitting the payments into either 2 or 3 payments. Just some food for thought. Not all of them have this option, but there are quite a few that do. Helps offset the total cost when you don't have to pay all of it at once. Tower Hobbies is the only online shop that I know of that does this as well. Good place to buy pretty well most any hobby grade RC vehicles and such.

 

[BBB]

Drone antennas. See... you can mix the hobbies

Drone side:
http://www.pharad.com/uav-antennas.html

And on the HF side:



http://www.sonic.net/~n6gn/SWTL_Powered_Drone_Antennas.html

http://hackaday.com/2016/08/24/hf-powered-drone-antenna/

 

[Captain Kilowatt]

The guy in the video is using what is called a G-line transmission line. It is usually used on UHF with low losses but he is attempting to use it at VHF.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goubau_line