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Anyone hang nodes in tall trees? (piefed.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 week ago by CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/meshtastic@mander.xyz

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I live in Western Washington, and we have very tall (130ft+) Douglas fir everywhere. I have a few on my property and I'm coming up with a plan to hang a node relatively high up.

I have two options to do this safely. I can either use an arborist sling to shoot a rope maybe 60ft or so up, and then pull a heavier rope with the node up. Or, I could drop some fishing line and a weight from my drone and do the same thing, except possibly even higher up.

Has anyone done something like this? Am I overthinking this, or missing something?

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[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

This is exactly how we put up amateur radio antennas.

Some things to consider:

how is it powered
how do you get it down
how do you stop it from killing someone on the ground when it eventually comes down
how will foliage growth affect the range
squirrels and birds will likely take an interest
waterproofing

[–] hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Stinking squirrels LOVED my end fed, no matter how I tied it over the branch, they'd find a way to bring it down inside of a year. I used a big plastic clothesline pulley once, because the tree moved in the wind, and they chewed through the pulley 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 1 points 1 week ago

Clearly you're not feeding your squirrels enough roughage 😁

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