Poll Results for Does your partner approve or disapprove of ham radio?

by Greyline Performance 5月 17, 2020

DURING COVID-19, HAM RADIO IS FUN AGAIN!

At Greyline Performance, we are honored to serve you our peers in this way. We see many of our customers on the bands working the world. Keep reading to see their stations and what they can do.

HEARD AROUND THE BANDS

Several notable hams from Amateur Radio Clubs around the world report great openings are now upon us this weekend. Are you getting in on this action?

N3QE reports 20M CW to Japan is wide open with super loud signals coming through until 8:30 AM EST. He reports FT8 has been great too.
W6/7 Clubs are sharing that the higher bands are open. 17M to Europe and surprisingly 6M within North America is opening this weekend and DXMaps confirms this. The west coast contingent is working into deep Asia (VU India), the Middle East, and Africa on 20M during the morning hours and late evening as well going the other way. Sounds like summer conditions are coming.
E77DX noted that 10M was wide open in Europe in their later evening hours today. We looked and saw 6M was extremely full in Europe also around 9 PM local EU time. Watch for an opening tonight in NA as possible before bed.

TODAY'S TOPICS AND INSIGHTS

28-50 MHz is Open! (6-10M)
Customer Sightings + Station Pictures
Survey Results: "Does your OM/XYL approve or disapprove of Ham Radio?"
Greyline Status: 2020 Updated Models begin shipping
COVID Promo: 50% off DX Shipping

KL2A/7 Beach House Portable QTH with 20' DX Vertical

50 MHz IS OPEN!

This is 6M (50 MHz) @ 05-17-20 2200Z (Sunday) - watch for an evening opening? (tnx E77DX for the alert)

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CUSTOMER SPOTLIGHT: WA2DX + WJ8B

We like to keep an eye on our customers to see how they are doing on the bands. Look how many countries they are working with their 16' & 20' DX Flagpole Antennas! Take a look at their radio stations and the list of countries they are working by clicking the links. Pretty amazing results for a vertical, right?

WA2DX statistics: 156 reports, 33 countries last week (20' DX Flagpole) See his station, here.

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WJ8B statistics: 241 reports, 29 countries last week. (16' DX Flagpole) See his station, here.

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QTH SURVEY RESULTS

Recently we conducted a survey by asking several questions to our customers about their Ham QTH's, power levels, modes, preferred brands, habits on the bands, and so on. We are still receiving 100's of responses and will report more insightful data soon. For now, we thought this line of questions and their answers was amusing and we think you will too!

So, we filtered the queries for the answer of "NO" for the question, "Does your XYL/OM/Partner support your Ham Radio Hobby?"

At the time of writing, 11% of the hams polled report having less than supportive partners. These folks prefer ICOM, note the 7300 over the mid and higher range ICOM, running barefoot, prefer the low bands (80-40M), are 75% likely to be involved in a club, and 25% use radio to stay in touch with family, which ranked high for this poll.

To be fair, we found that those who prefer Yaesu are typically high power and spend most of their time on 40M SSB. FT8 and CW operators clearly prefer the mid-range ICOM HF Transceiver over all other brands polled. Maybe a Remote HF Radio thing?

We have all sorts of other data trends to share such as those who think 'bigger is better' and those focused on specific modes and what their preferences seem to be. We will post again soon.

Do you think this is interesting? Will you help us select our next product? Let us know in the comments below or send us an email?

1. Please take the Survey, here

2. What other questions we can ask our global audience? Let us know in the comments below or email us. Thank you.

STATUS REPORT @ GREYLINE

At Greyline, we are excited to ship out our newest update completed in May 2020. Watch for New Products to be announced soon too.

See our Status page for updates.

FUN SIGNAL EXPERIMENTS TO TRY AT HOME

Would you like to hear how your signal sounds and see what your signal report is, right now, all over the planet? You can. There are 100's, if not 1000's of SDR radio stations tuning the bands that will relay live audio of your signal, give signal reports, and a list of stations that hear your signal. All of this is done by remote ham radio operations listening across the entire ham band spectrum. Try these services, free.

WebSDR: (any Mode) Simply select a location, tune the dial to your frequency and call CQ from home and hear your signal from anywhere in the world!

Reverse Beacon Network RBN: (CW)
1. Find a clear frequency in the CW band
2. Call "CQ CQ your-call your-call"
3. Type your name in the Spot Search
4. See where you are heard around the world.

PSKReporter (digital modes) This service is much like the Reverse Beacon Network with a map visual.

COVID PROMO: NO CODE NEEDED

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Select your DX Flagpole or DX Vertical Antenna System
Included: Greyline DX Premium Feed Kit
Included: Premium Flag Kit (Flag, truck, cleat, clips, rope)
Included: Premium RF Choke
You bring the radio, we provide the rest to plug n play on the radio waves
Reserve antenna, pay when item ships

CQ CQ CALLING ALL DX FLAGPOLE OWNERS:

Will you share your DX adventures with us? Please send in a picture or YouTube video of your shack, antenna, or some action shots of the bands coming alive. We'd love to share your story of good news with our peers around the world at large. Email: flagpoleantennas@gmail.com - Thank you!

We are honored to serve you, our peers, with a more useful service. Smarter, Stronger & more Elegant than other all-band options.

We'd enjoy hearing from you. What adventures on the bands are you finding? Will you share your thoughts with us?

HAM RADIO IS FUN AGAIN ----- PASS IT ON -----

73 and DX!

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Fun Plus

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.