"Fred W4JLE" wrote in
:

I have both a 130 foot dipole and a G5RV, I can switch between the two
and the reports are exactly the same on 75. With 100 watts on the G5RV
I have worked well over 100 countries on SSB 75 meters. The day I
received the Olivia for my mix w, worked Russia on it with 5 watts on
20 meters.

I use it nightly on my Navy Mars nets in the 3 Mhz area.

Like the 130 foot dipole I vary the feed line length to tune.

Both feedlines are fed from the rig to the ladderline with coax
covered with ferrite beads at the junction end.



"Cecil Moore" wrote in message
et...
Reg Edwards wrote:
Anybody who boasts about his G5RV has never tried anything else.

Reg, I replaced my 130 ft. dipole with a G5RV so I could
experiment with it. Given my modifications, Nobody can tell
it from the 130 ft. dipole so there's no reason to return
to the 130 ft. dipole. My G5RV has an SWR of less than 2:1
on all eight HF bands.

There's nothing wrong with a G5RV if you couple power to its radiating
element efficiently. I usually just don't bother with the coax part of
the feed system and prefer to just run 300 ohm (or better yet 450 ohm)
line right to the shack and feed it through a tuner.

--
Dave Oldridge+
ICQ 1800667