What should I write about my antenna on my QRZ page?

Name the antenna, its height, the bands it works and how it is matched, then one line about where it stands and what it has worked. Greyline owners can copy a ready block for the DX Flagpole, DX Vertical or Skyline and paste it into the QRZ biography.

Put Your Greyline on Your QRZ Page

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Put your Greyline on your QRZ page

Every operator who looks you up on QRZ wants to know one thing first: what are you running? Tell them. Copy the block for your antenna, paste it into your QRZ biography, and change the lines in brackets to your own. That is the whole job.

Why it matters: the next HOA operator who finds you in a pileup will look you up, see a flagpole that works 160 through 6, and know it can be done. One paste, and your page teaches.

DX Flagpole owners

Copy everything in the box. Replace the bracketed parts.

ANTENNA: Greyline [20]' DX Flagpole. A vertical dipole that works 160-6M from a flagpole, no radials, matched by a wide-range tuner. The HOA sees a flagpole. [Your line: where it stands and what it has worked.]

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DX Vertical owners

ANTENNA: Greyline [28]' DX Vertical. A vertical dipole, 160-6M, no radials, matched by a wide-range tuner. [Your line: where it stands and what it has worked.]

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With the 9' DX Whip or the Skyline

ANTENNA: Greyline [37]' Skyline ([28]' DX Vertical + 9' DX Whip). A vertical dipole, 160-6M, no radials, matched by a wide-range tuner. [Your line: where it stands and what it has worked.]

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HD Series owners

ANTENNA: Greyline [28]' HD DX [Flagpole]. A vertical dipole on a 3-inch heavy-duty base, 160-6M, no radials, matched by a wide-range tuner. Built for wind. [Your line: where it stands and what it has worked.]

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Three good lines, if you want one

"In the front yard of an HOA lot in [state]. Worked [country] on 40 last week."
"Goes up and down alone on the tilt base. Storm comes, it comes down."
"My first antenna in twenty years. On the air the same afternoon."

How to paste it on QRZ

Log in to QRZ, open your own page, choose Edit, then Biography. Paste the block where you describe your station. Save. If you add a photo of the antenna, you have done more for the hobby than most of us manage in a year.

Then join the Clubhouse roster. Reply to any Greyline email, or write to CQ@greylineperformance.com, with your callsign and your QRZ link, and your call goes gold on the Clubhouse roster, where owners find each other on the air.

73 · Jon KL2A · Greyline · 435-200-4902

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Essential for every antenna

This turns all antenna work into easy one-man jobs. It also makes storm prep easy - just drop the antenna for the storm, raise it later. It takes less than 5 minutes to go up or down. I can't imagine having an antenna without one. I'm old enough that climbing towers, trees or big ladders just isn't in the playbook any longer, so this is a life-saver for my hobby. Buy one and make your life easier and add years to your ability to work on your antenna. Five Stars!!

Thank you, Rob. “Essential” is exactly the word we hoped for. One tip from another owner: walk it down once a season on a calm day and check the hardware at chest height. Fun season ahead! 73, Jon KL2A

Should be part of every antenna

The tilt base makes it possible to raise and lower the antenna in minutes single-handed with complete safety. The design is simple and robust and I love the fact that it can't over-shoot when raising it. In fact, it is seriously over-built. The only help I needed to install it was lowering the antenna to add the unit. It does raise the halyard cleat but I simply removed it, left the bolts in the original holes and mounted it at a comfortable level with a stainless hose clamp, problem solved. No more worries about the antenna during storms here in Florida. Five minutes and it's on the ground out of the wind.

Great addition to My 20V!

After 2 weeks of use I can safely say that the 9' whip is a great addition to my 20V! My rough calculations show about a 2+ db improvement overall. On the receive side the most dramatic indicator is that I am getting approximately the same signal strength without the preamp on most bands. I am also getting more reports in the + range on FT8 than previously. I have used PSK reporter to get a general picture of my RF footprint and signal strength compared to to the original 20v w/ previous reports. I have also been able to work several new countries that I could not work previously...India, Franz Joseph Land, Kahazakistan. India is certainly not rare but it has taken me three years to eliminate my "blind spot". Swr is well below 1.3/1 on all bands 80m-6m using the LDG RT-100 at the antenna. All in all could not be more pleased with the 9" whip addition!

Franz Josef Land and Kazakhstan on nine more feet — that's the report every whip page wishes it had. Thank you, Craig. Your words are on the page now. 73, Jon KL2A

Better base.

I want a 6ft x 18in hole. That is what the backhoe bucket is going to dig. I will need my own base tube, and a whole lotta concrete! I bought this extender to allow a more accurate vertical alignment while dumping in the concrete.

A 6-foot hole will hold anything we build. One tip while the concrete goes in: check plumb from two directions, 90° apart, then leave it alone for 24 hours. Send us a photo when it’s up! 73, Jon KL2A

Product is good. But I need a quick instruction sheet. You remove the bottom tube and replace it with the antenna base. Then the tube you removed connects the the top of the arm and to the insulated base of the antenna. Now I can lower my 24’ antenna without help.

Thank you, Dale. You were right, so we made one: the one-page Tilt-Up Base Instructions (install, lower, raise) now sit on the product page, because of your review. Have the best season yet! 73, Jon KL2A