The Skyline 33 Flagpole Antenna: The 40-Meter Height, Flying A Flag
Thirty-three feet is the classic 40-meter quarter-wave — and this one flies a flag. The Skyline 33 Flag Kit is the 24-foot DX Flagpole plus the 9-foot DX Whip: the textbook low-band height, dressed for the HOA. The neighbors see a flagpole. Forty meters hears the real thing.
Everything we published about the Skyline 33 applies here — the quarter-wave story, the modeled gain on 40 through 20, and the physics up high stated as it is. Read the full Skyline 33 story →
The Quiet Classic
The height the textbooks were written around, hiding in plain sight on your lawn.
The Build // 33 Feet, Flag Flying
Base: 24-foot DX Flagpole, 160-6M, no radials, HOA-friendly.
Top: 9-foot DX Whip — two-minute install, no tools. The flag and the whip fly together; nothing about the whip displaces the flag.
Total height: 33 feet — the classic 40-meter quarter-wave.
Best bands: 40M, 30M, 20M (modeled positive gain). 17M transitional; multi-lobe behavior 15M and up.
FT8 / digital: Full duty cycle at rated power — a solid radiator with no traps or loading coils to heat.
Storm rule: when the forecast turns, flag down and nothing on top. Federal flag protocol says the same thing, and it is what keeps the antenna inside its rating.
Prefer the open build, no flag? Skyline 33 Open DX Vertical →
Complete The Station — All Three Save You Money In The Same Cart
The Tilt-Up Base — at 33 feet with a flag and a halyard to service, this is what keeps the whole thing a one-person job for life. Walk it down to waist height, change the flag, check the hardware, walk it back up alone. $25 off automatically with any antenna.
Assembled coax and hardline — genuine Times Microwave LMR-400 and LMR-600 and Andrew Heliax, cut to length, terminated with PL-259 or N, weatherproofed and labeled. The antenna is only as good as the line feeding it, and a tired run can eat half your power on the high bands. 10% off the feedline automatically with any antenna. Measure radio to feedpoint and add about 15%.
The RT-100 remote tuner — a wide-range ATU is required for a non-resonant antenna, and mounted at the base it keeps your whole coax run near 1:1. $25 off automatically with any antenna. Prefer a desktop tuner? That works too — see the tuner shelf.
Getting It Approved
If your board has to say yes first, we wrote the letter they want to see — dimensions, finish, and the language that gets a flagpole approved as a flagpole. The HOA and XYL Approval Letter →
More on the legislation, the property-value question, and what neighbors actually ask: the HOA Approval Hub →
The Skyline Ladder + Keep Reading
The Skyline 37 and Skyline 29 — the same idea at 37 feet for the operator who lives on 40 and 30, and at 29 feet for a shorter pole with a higher wind rating.
The Antenna Selection Guide — tell it your bands, it finds your height.
Free shipping in the USA and Canada. Hand-built in Sun Valley, Idaho.
