(VIDEO) 20 mins of Fun Ham Radio CW from Idaho using 100W + 24' Greyline Flagpole Antenna, HF Vertical

by Greyline Performance May 04, 2021

(Video) 20 minutes of ham radio (CWT contest) from Northern Idaho using a portable go kit "ski bag" amateur radio station on the deck

24' HF VERTICAL ANTENNA & 100W WORKS A LOT OF STATIONS

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One more video from the week at the Idaho lake house. Pictured here is a portable go-kit ham radio antenna set up for 160-6M using the LDG RT 100 remote tuner and Greyline Performance 24' OCF HF Vertical Antenna, aka Flagpole Antenna (without the flag up high, but one is on the deck!)

This antenna travels in a ski bag as a portable go-kit radio unit that can be installed (ropes to the deck in this case) in 5 minutes or so and ready to operate on the ham bands.

The ladder line is seen exiting the antenna to an adapter which converts the window line to a PL259 that plugs into the LDG RT-100 remote tuner. Simple.

Tthe other black box you see is a mini RF Choke that connects the feedline to the shack which is about 25’ of LMR 240. This keeps any CMC (common mode current) off the coax and at the antenna.

Cycle 25 and the ham radio bands are coming alive and we are having fun working the ham bands from the cabin from the Pacific Northwest once again.

"We had some fun runs and guys were hearing us across the country from Northern Idaho! So much fun."

THIS WEEK ON THE RADIO: WA7BNM's Contest Calendar

What other 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."

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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!

Very pleased and impressed.

I got HOA approval, even though they require white fiberglass flag poles. I explained that while it was a genuine flag pole, it was also an amateur radio antenna that provided emergency communications if needed. Living in hurricane country, that thought that was a very good thing to have in the hood.
As for the technical details of the antenna, speaking as one who has built their own flag pole antenna, this one is a great design and manufactured antenna. The machined parts and hardware are first rate! The performance is superb. I’m FT8 ing points easily 1000+ miles on 20w. (20 meters).

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I am providing my first impression report regarding my 24FT HOA antenna. Installation was easy once I was able to figure out the instructions. The twin lead spacers were missing so I inserted a section of PVC into the lower section to insulate the twin lead. I’m using an IC7300, MFJ 993brt remote tuner, Balun Design, Inc model 117t balun which takes coax as input and twin lead as output. I then feed it through an Array Solutions model AS309H arrestor which takes twin lead as both input and output. With the remote tuner: SWR readings are 1.2 in the cw portion of 40 meters and 1.5 in the ssb portion SWR readings are 1.1 all the way across 20 meters (my favorite band) SWR readings are 1.2 in the cw portion of 15 meters and 1.4 in the ssb portion I am a cw guy and have worked all over Europe and South America as well as New Zealand and am getting very good signal reports. Needless to say, I am very pleased with this antenna so far. It works way better than I expected I haven’t yet had to operate in windy or rainy conditions so there is more to learn. Howard Glassman K4OBC

Great pole, excellent service and communications.

I purchased the pole without the antenna and am very happy with the quality and ease of installation.