KD9PQW Indiana works East Africa, Europe, Alaska & S. America from his HOA Flagpole Antenna

by Greyline Performance October 14, 2020

KD9PQW in an Indiana HOA works the world with his 20' Greyline Flagpole Antenna.

Greg's XYL let's him install the Greyline Flagpole Antenna in the garden. That's a happy wife!

Ham Radio is fun again, right out of the box!

CUSTOMER SPOTLIGHT: KD9PQW

Look at this map! He's heard in East Africa to Alaska, Europe and South America too! Wow, Greg.

Greyline notes: Did a little check on PSKReporter for KD9PQW and it looks like he's working the world! Way to go Greg!

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Pictured: 20' Greyline DX Flagpole

Wow, the XYL let you install the Greyline Flagpole in the Garden. Lucky you. Looks great too.

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Pictured: LDG RT-600 Remote Tuner looks nice with the flower garden.

Greg, KD9PQW writes:

"Completed my antenna installation and so far I am happy with the contacts I am making. I have the 20' antenna with the RT-600 tuner and yes I made sure the hot center conductor is feeding the top section. Right now I am using FT-8 but will try others later. I am mostly working 20, 30 and 40 Meters right now.

SWR results.

80 M 1.55

40 M 1.08

30 M 1.28

20 M 1.5

17 M 1.49

15 M 1.29

12 M 1.9

10 M 2.4

6 M 2.6

Please let me know what you think and if there are any tweaks to be made. I am using an Icom IC-7300 going thru an MFJ-849 wattmeter.

Thanks

Greg

Greyline Performance writes: Greg, even I have mixed up and fed the the lower section, which is only 4'. Oops. Makes a huge difference (15-25dB) when you feed the top longer section for the radiator! The SWR looks good. Those little RT-600's work great don't they?

Speaking of looking great, that garden installed Greyline Flagpole and the results you've shared are first-class. Congrats to you sir!

Greg's XYL let's him install the Greyline Flagpole Antenna in the garden. That's a happy wife. We'd bet your other half would rather you had a DX Flagpole too. Be like Greg.

WHAT CUSTOMERS ARE SAYING:

"Real DX 160-6M at my HOA"
"4 Band DXCC in 3-months at my HOA."
"So pretty my XYL approves!"
"If I can hear it, I can work it."

Let's get you and your friends back on the air. Ham Radio is fun again! Pass it on...

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I'm very happy with the Greyline Flag pole antenna, easy to install and the shipping was fast with all the parts arriving at the same time.

Great product

I'm very happy with this antenna. It works wonderful and I couldn't be happier.

DX 24' Flagpole is a Super Awesome Antenna

I originally installed a Greyline DX 24' Flagpole, in my covenant restricted area,
about 3.5 years ago and made several thousand OSOs. Super quality material, was
easy to install and performed better than expected from my noisy locale.

Due to some issues with the park I live in and some performance degradation, I decided to
refurb the installation with new feedline, balun (my tuner does not have a built-in balun)
choke and the ladder line. During the process, I found a frayed part of the internal
ladder line that look like it was chewed on and a few other minor issues (weather related)

Needless to say, it fired up first time with no issues (I followed the tips) and seeing
signals and S levels I haven't seen in awhile..

The DX Flagpole antennas are well worth the investment as they work extremely well,
made of highest quality materials that will last for a very long time.

Longest QSO was about 12,500 miles on FT8. Super awesome.

73,
Greg K7GAN

Fun Plus

Looks great and works even better. I hear more stations on my regular nets than I normally do. I used stone papers for a rectangular wall around the flagpole which matches the house. A beautiful, wonderful, addition to my hoa property.

A positive upgrade...

I was impressed with the quality of the antenna tubing used. It's not the normal aluminum used by the other manufacturers, but a precision machined tubing. It fit together tightly with the thick fiberglass insulating sections. Using the LDG-RT600 remote antenna tuner, it tuned very well on 40-6 (I don't use 160/80) as a ground-mounted 28 ft. vertical dipole and really captures the DX! My QSO and country count really started accelerating from where it was. I live on a small corner lot with no HOA, and have no real trees for antenna supports. I can now reach AUS and the South Pacific with ease from the East Coast of the USA. I had a special installation so it took me about 5 hours to install by myself (several trips to several hardware stores for clamps, all-thread and such). It was pretty much a 'remove and replace' with the old antenna. All-in-all, it was a worthwhile investment and upgrade, I love this thing!

KD9PQW Indiana works East Africa, Europe, Alaska & S. America from his HOA Flagpole Antenna

KD9PQW in an Indiana HOA works the world with his 20' Greyline Flagpole Antenna.

Greg's XYL let's him install the Greyline Flagpole Antenna in the garden. That's a happy wife!

Greg, KD9PQW writes:

Greg's XYL let's him install the Greyline Flagpole Antenna in the garden. That's a happy wife. We'd bet your other half would rather you had a DX Flagpole too. Be like Greg.

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