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Greyline DX Flagpole How-to’s: Mounting, ground, boat, bulkhead, roof top, towers.
by Greyline Performance
OCF Vertical Dipoles (aka DX Flagpole Antennas) can be mounted on the ground at home or HOA, lake docks, saltwater beaches, sailboats and atop a tower. Radials are not needed for high-performance. Where will you install yours?

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Configuring your DX HOA Flagpole Antenna System | Ham Radio Antenna
by Greyline Performance

A natural starting point in the configuration process of the Greyline Flagpole Antennas and Vertical Dipoles antenna installation.

Covering the "Balanced or Unbalanced" debate, the assertion of floating your entire antenna system, to the ABCs of assembly order with extra Pro Tips... Ham Radio is fun again! Pass it on...

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How close to my home can I install the Greyline Vertical Antenna or Flagpole Antenna?
by Greyline Performance
Many have asked, "How close can I install the antenna to my home, trees, even with surrounding buildings so close by?" We asked RF engineer and antenna designer to chime in. You'll be encouraged by his graph and knowledge shared. #hamradio #hoa #antenna

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DX Flagpole Antenna and HOA vertical antennas are > 90% efficient
by Greyline Performance
When it comes to radio antennas, efficiency is related to how much loss is within the antenna system. That said, there truly isn't much loss with the pole and tuner.

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The Legend of W7DND's "Magic Antenna" or "DND Array" #hamr
by Greyline Performance
He hand-built a vertical-yagi beam on a rotating dock (a rotating dock!). We aren't promoting rotating docks (yet!) but we are offering a useful and we believe the smarter solution for many restricted space QTH's, the DX Flagpole.

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Introducing the DX Flagpole Antenna | 160-6M HF Vertical Dipole VDA
by Greyline Performance
Meet our latest product, the DX Flagpole Antenna, an off-center-fed (OCF) vertical dipole antenna with a confident 160-6M performance

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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.

Greyline DX Flagpole How-to’s: Mounting, ground, boat, bulkhead, roof top, towers.

Configuring your DX HOA Flagpole Antenna System | Ham Radio Antenna

How close to my home can I install the Greyline Vertical Antenna or Flagpole Antenna?

DX Flagpole Antenna and HOA vertical antennas are > 90% efficient

The Legend of W7DND's "Magic Antenna" or "DND Array" #hamr

Introducing the DX Flagpole Antenna | 160-6M HF Vertical Dipole VDA

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