Ski Bag Portable, Parks, Camps, Beach Ham Radio with Greyline DX Vertical Antenna #POTA #SOTA

by Greyline Performance May 04, 2019

Hear real DX audio from summer Quick-deploy, Ski Bag, and Beach house DXpeditions with the Greyline DX Vertical Antenna

Hello Radio Friends,

We receive requests to share more pictures and stories of the Greyline Vertical Antennas, we created some for you and it was a lot of fun too.

It's our hope that you appreciate the audio of the below, Live "on the air" action with RBN (signal report data) and some commentary too.

Updated: WPX CW AUDIO added

KL2A (Member of Team USA WRTC 2014) returned to rural W7 using the callsign of KQ7W for the weekend to test the 20' OCF vertical dipole from a beachfront QTH.

The ham bands weren’t great but you can hear a fun opening very-late evening on 20-40M from near Seattle. The background DX in the audio files is worth noticing!

Jon (KL2A) writes, "please excuse the LID'ery, it was freezing at night. I was wrapped in a sleeping bag, just the fingers out for the CW paddle, with only the light from the laptop, radio, and the stars! A real good time."

G5W 20M
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h8n3OJnw40WgjK7cCPdzfAPoeGmBxXqN/view?usp=sharing

KH7M 20M
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1klf4BeupwPWfxOxsfRymFNPbHBPdu2at/view?usp=sharing

W6/7 mini-regional ”run”
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Kgcubu8gS373byn3Vid4ChnWZIcfQj7x/view?usp=sharing

Other noteworthy highlights are the DX RBNs that reported hearing us all over the world. Remember, this is 50W to a 20' VDA vertical antenna.

What highlights and adventures did you find? Email us to share your highlights. 73

7th Call Area QSO Party

7QP Ski Bag to Beach House Portable: Puget Sound, Washington State
https://photos.app.goo.gl/Jf7XPzEyFTaErDkB9

How-To: Schoolkids Build a DX Flagpole Antenna in 90-minutes!
https://photos.app.goo.gl/VSNpeMSCYg1ckKGJ8

[AUDIO] Recorded Live using 20' DX Flagpole and 50W during 7QP 7th Call Area QSO Party
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d6uY57zOo6BWkTxWlYJsXZ7vFCxP_O82/view

*portability is a bonus (antenna weighs only 20 lbs total)

**Note: This recording was captured mid-day on 20M from North of Seattle, Washington. In this short segment, we work into Florida, California, Alaska, New England, and the mid-west too.

Learn more about our VDA Vertical Dipole Antennas by studying our data and graphs on performance, losses, and comparisons with the market offerings. We discuss in more detail within the RF Blog including several other stories and customer pictures. Also, our FAQs answer so many questions we've received on the DX Flagpole antenna. You'll be pleased with the design and performance.

As always, please send any questions or comments our way. We'd like to share them with our peers. Consider passing this on to a friend that really could enjoy getting back on all bands with DX confidence.

Let us know if you have any questions or comments.

WOULD YOU LIKE TO WORK THE WORLD FROM HOME OR IN YOUR RV OR CAMPSITE WITHIN JUST A FEW MINUTES OF PARKING? YOU CAN...

HAM RADIO IS FUN AGAIN. PASS IT ON.

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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).

I’ve tried to include photos, but can’t seem to…..

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.

Ski Bag Portable, Parks, Camps, Beach Ham Radio with Greyline DX Vertical Antenna #POTA #SOTA

Hear real DX audio from summer Quick-deploy, Ski Bag, and Beach house DXpeditions with the Greyline DX Vertical Antenna

7th Call Area QSO Party

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