Introducing PipetennaTM: An antenna for all seasons. And we're not kidding.

Heathkit PipetennaTM is a high-performance stealth VHF/UHF antenna you can build yourself.

No radials. No radials. No radials . Radials sticking out of a rooftop-mounted antenna make it look like, well, an antenna. We think antennas are beautiful too--but do your neighbors like looking at them? How about the President of your HOA, or the local (cough) busybody? Wouldn't you prefer they never notice your antennas? So: Did we mention, no radials? (No, not all vertical antennas need radials, just the compromise antennas you had to choose from until now.)

PipetennaTM: It's high-performance. About 6 dBi gain on 2m, omnidirectional, at a length of only five feet (1.7m). Just about flat SWR -- 1.5:1 or better across the entire 2m band when assembled as directed. Darned good on 440MHz too. Check out the specs below.

Clever enough to be patented. No kidding. The patent filings are already in, for US and international coverage. You wouldn't believe the number of inventions in this little antenna. Not to mention the other antennas we have coming to you soon.

Exceptional manufacturing quality. Let's face it: There's no shortage of junk and corner-cutting in the market. Imagine the opposite: That's Pipetenna.TM It uses only the highest-quality name-brand coax and connectors. Housing components have carefully chamfered edges for ease of assembly. Coax pass-throughs are specially offset-milled to minimize stress on coax. There's no metal assembly hardware to sieze, spall, rust, or fail, and no exposed metal to corrode. The choke is weatherproofed. We use an N-type connector, which is watertight and electrically stable and eliminates any impedance bump: 50 Ohms presented to a transmission line should be 50 Ohms, today and tomorrow, on VHF and UHF, and water shouldn't leak into your coax from a low-quality connector. And this antenna is waterproof. Yes, waterproof. It actually can be used on a boat, or near the ocean (where we are), even submerged without corrosion or damage for that matter. In short, every detail has been attended to.

This thing is built to last. We've tested it for over a year at our antenna range in the Cascades Mountains of the Pacific Northwest. (Why a whole year? Because years have seasons, and weather follows seasons.) PipetennaTM has routinely survived snowstorms, and summer heat, and lashing rain in gale-force winds. As for survivability assessment: We don't just compute a theoretical windload based on normalized surface area. We engineering stress-test it, measuring angular displacement applying varying mass correlated to windload, until it finally breaks. (Believe us, it takes a whole lot of force. Don't try this at home.) Your PipetennaTM might or might not survive a major hurricane on your roof; but then, neither would you. Nor will your roof, for that matter. Again: Engineered for reliability, built to last.