"Lostgallifreyan" wrote in message
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Stephen Thomas Cole wrote in
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Just an FYI. Big G is trolling, here. He's currently being shunned in
uk.radio.amateur as the good and decent users of that group have finally
had enough of him. Consequently, he's starved for attention, hence the
inane postings he's vomiting left, right and centre. He's best avoided.


Well, no problem there. I just took up the suject as I saw it. I won't try
to
talk to Gareth directly, he has never once responded to me as far as I
know.
I suspect maybe I do not have the right kind of degree and gentlemanly air
of
electromic authority for him to deign to even notice me.

I replied to you on the 28th August last ...

"Lostgallifreyan" wrote in message
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"gareth" wrote in news:lthnu9$ilc$1@dont-
email.me:
There have been designs published in Brit of using the steel of
wind-up tape measures, and this could be a potential starting point
for any discussion, by the use of flat metal tape.
I suspect my notion is not new, but what about a coil of wire, some well-
spaced trees, a long lanyard, a tennis ball, and a spud gun?
Someone will likely have one they prepared earlier, so I won't put the
bits
together.

A well-tried and tested solution to one problem, but I'd be interested in a
structure that when you go QRT, you could then retract it back.