DX Flagpole Antenna, a passport to Real DX in your HOA.
Operator Spotlight · From the Archive, 2019
DX Flagpole Antenna: a Passport to Real DX in Your HOA
Hello Radio Friends,
One of our happy customers, Bill, sent us an enviable image of Old Glory waving at his QTH — and a passport to adventure on the shortwaves. Imagine the palm fronds and the flag waving proudly in the wind… and notice the pole doesn’t move. Bill is working DX right now. Can you hear it?
“The DX Flagpole is 2–3 S-units louder on first tests versus the loop on 20/17M.”
Beyond the good looks, he wrote that he was “so glad to be working guys on 80M, for the first time in 20 years!”
“XR0ZRC … one-called him. Not bad for a 20’ OCF Vertical Dipole and 100 watts.”
Update, March 13, 2019: “Interestingly, one of the big DX deals going on right now is Juan Fernandez Island (Robinson Crusoe), XR0ZRC. The pile-ups have been enormous. I caught him on 20 CW the other morning at 13:11Z just as 20M was opening up here. He evidently had just moved to 20 as the pile was small, I caught the previous station working split and one-called him. Not bad for a 20’ OCF and 100 watts.”
“Far more competitive than I expected.”
After the ARRL International DX Phone contest, March 2–3, 2019: propagation was lousy enough that even some of the fiercest competitors pulled the plug halfway through — the 200-foot-tower stations included. Here’s Bill:
“I ran about 100 contacts in the ARRL Phone DX Contest over the weekend. I could hear a ton of stuff in Europe and Asia. Also was on 20, 15, and 10. As you would expect with lousy propagation, 20 was a zoo. I still managed to put some European and Oceania stations in the log. In the pile-ups, I got a surprising number of 1 to 3 call contacts, far more competitive than I expected. Same thing on 15. Only half a dozen on 10M as it was only open for a couple of hours on Saturday afternoon, and that was mostly to South America and the Caribbean.”
Let’s be like Bill and make ham radio even more fun, again.
Today’s Greyline, in one line: every band, 160 through 6 meters, from one feedpoint with a tuner; no radials, no guy wires; the pole itself is the antenna. Every antenna ships free to the USA and Canada.
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Ham Radio is fun again! Pass it on… 73, Jon KL2A · 435-200-4902
Hi Robert,
We have many customers who use the Icom AH-4 remote tuner. We tell folks to compare the impedance ranges of tuners we suggest and offer. The AH-4 is a powerful little unit widely used with antennas much smaller than our all band vertical antenna systems. You’ll have great luck on all frequencies from 80M on up.
Ham Radio is fun again!
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Wonder how it would work with an Icom AH-4?