360 Degree Panoramic View
Today, James popped over and helped me shove a 16 foot lightweight pole into the top of the rotator on the tower. I attached a small video camera to the top of the pole.
It was quite funny because I couldn’t control the camera from the ground, so holding the pole horizontally at waist height, we focussed the camera on something far away and started recording - then the elaborate art of pole assembly was required to get the pole fitted to the rotator, start the generator engine and get the tower wound up to 40 feet - and do a 360 degree rotation before the time-out facility of three minutes shut the camera down!
The first time, instead of starting the film, I must have stopped it since all that effort and no film!
The second time, at least we got 270 degrees of rotation before the film stopped. Enough anyway to realise that 40 feet is genuinely high enough for some excellent 2.4gHz point-to-point stuff locally.
Great fun!
Later, I resigned the FT1000MP Yahoo Group and had a super QSO with my friend Arie, PA3A.
Cheers and beers,
Callum.
