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

von Greyline Performance 14. Oktober. 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."

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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.

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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