Reg Edwards wrote:

"Old Ed" wrote
Presumably, the reference antennas against which the G5RV is
called a "compromise" are full-sized dipoles for the respective
bands. IF the G5RV can come reasonably close to those
(and many users seem to think it can),

Can 250,000 housewives be wrong?
Of course they can!

Reg, I just modeled the half-sized G5RV using EZNEC.
The dipole is 3/2WL on 10m and the twinlead is 1/2WL
on 10m. EZNEC reports the following 50 ohm SWRs at
the twinlead/coax junction.

10m - 2.0:1, 20m - 2.7:1, 40m - 2.6:11

I would be hard pressed to tell the difference between
the efficiency of a half-sized G5RV vs a resonant
dipole for those three bands.
--
73, Cecil, http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp

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