Dave:
What frequencies are you evaluating the antennas at? The G5RV and the
dipole will/may be optimized for different frequancies than your random
wire. Also, don't be surprised at the performance of a random wire for
general HF listening. There is a reason they are so popular.

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Brian Denley
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"David Chilvers" wrote in message
...
I`m playing around with wire antennas at present and amazed that a 60ft
wire
from a tree to my house, run down the back of the house and connected to a
balun as it goes through the wall in coax seems to be ahead of my
G5RV(full
length) and a home made 40Mtr wire dipole for SWL. My question is! The
tree
is at the bottom of the garden(almost central) if I connect another length
of wire to the end at the tree and bring it back to the other side of the
house it would be in a `V` formation(horizontal) rather than a straight
line
and about 150ft total length, do you think it would be much of an
improvement over the straight 60ft or would I start to run into any
problems
like overload etc? I use table top receivers that have att`s etc.

Why wouldn`t a 102ft G5RV work better than the 60ft straight I wonder,
they
both face roughly the same direction and are both to the rear of the house
facing fields????? The G5RV is about the same height as the 60ft wire
(22ft)

Thanks for any advice

Dave C