First atttempt flying 96m of wire for 5/8th wave antenna on 160m ham radio band. Counterpoise used was 4 x 10m and vswr was 1.4:1 before any length adjustment.

Found this local antenna kite video !

At Souter Lighthouse during Marconi Weekend (I think?) using a 5/8 wave end fed on 80m held up by a kite. We had to use a 4:1 balun here because I left the 9:1 at home! Still, both baluns have a DC to ground so that kept the static at bay. Thanks to Gerard for hogging the radio (as he always does), Dave for mucking in with keeping everything in the air and Ron for taking the video and sending it to me! Oh yes, I'm Paul, the one throwing the kite up!

A lot of years ago (33 to be exact), I used to work in a bakery in Newcastle, and I used to work night shift.

Returning home on a winter night between 4:30 am and 6.00 am I would listen go on TOPBAND (1.8 Mhz) in the DX Window.

Some nights used to hear the late Arnold Tamchin (W2HCW), on ssb, using a beam on topband !, way stronger than the other weaker US cw signals.

I spoke to Arnold a couple of times.

Well in the same style (probably bigger) here it is - a topband beam, from the OH8X Radio Arcala team.