The Skyline 29 Flagpole Antenna
Every band, 160 through 6, from one feedpoint and no radials — flying a flag. The 20-foot DX Flagpole plus the 9-foot DX Whip: 29 feet of aperture, enough to wake up 40 meters, with bonus gain across 30 through 15 and about +3.5 dBi on 17. The least conspicuous Skyline in the ladder, with the highest wind rating. The HOA sees a flagpole.
The Band-Hopper's Flagpole
Forty for the nets, twenty through fifteen for the DX. One flag, one feedpoint, every band.
The Gain, Band By Band
In NEC modeling over average ground, measured against an ideal quarter-wave on a full field of buried radials (0 dBi), the Skyline 29 reads: 40 m −0.5 — within half a decibel of that full-radial ideal, with no radials, and about 1 dB over the bare 20-foot · 30 m +1.1 · 20 m +2.3 · 17 m +3.5 dBi, the strongest · 15 m +2.5 · multi-lobe on 12 and 10.
A half-decibel minus on 40 is nothing to fear — no ear on the other end will hear it. On 80 and 160, small-lot operators working 500 to 1,000 miles are delighted to be in the game. How to read antenna gain → · The full Skyline 29 story →
The Build // 29 Feet, Flag Flying
Base: 20-foot DX Flagpole, 160-6M, no radials — compact, and it reads as a flagpole on almost any street.
Top: 9-foot DX Whip — two-minute install, no tools. The flag and the whip fly together.
Bonus bands: every band works; in NEC modeling it also runs ahead of a full-radial quarter-wave on 30 through 15 — 17M (about +3.5 dBi), 15M (+2.5), 20M (+2.3), 30M (+1.1) — and within half a decibel on 40M. Multi-lobe on 12M and 10M.
FT8 / digital: Full duty cycle at rated power — a solid radiator with no traps or loading coils to heat.
How it ships: 4-foot, 2-inch sections with the couplers already bolted on — no loose hardware — bagged and boxed, plus the whip.
Storm rule: when the forecast turns, flag down and nothing on top.
Complete The Station — Priced As A System
The Tilt-Up Base — at 29 feet with a flag to service, this keeps it a one-person job for life. $50 off automatically with any Skyline.
Assembled coax and hardline — genuine Times Microwave LMR and Andrew Heliax, cut, terminated, weatherproofed. 10% off automatically with any antenna.
A tuner, in the shack or at the antenna — both work, and almost any decent-size ATU will do. The LDG RT-100 remote is the easy, affordable starter; see the tuner shelf.
Getting It Approved
If your board has to say yes first, we wrote the brief they want to see. The HOA Architectural Brief → · The HOA Approval Hub →
The Skyline 33 and 37 — the 33 at the classic 40-meter quarter-wave height; the 37 with the most length in the line, bonus gain up to about +4 dBi on 17. Antennas ship within days, free to the USA and Canada.
73 — Jon KL2A — 435-200-4902
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