Cecil Moore wrote:
jawod wrote:

Yep, too LONG.
Egg on MY face. In my defense, it was late and I was working all day
getting the G5RV up in the trees.


The dipole should be 102 feet for bare wire. Maybe 99
feet for insulated wire. That's 1.5WL on 20m. The
series section should be 1/2WL on 20m. With a VF = 0.9,
that's a little over 31 feet.

According to EZNEC, here are the optimum lengths for
the series section:

3.8 MHz 30.5', 7.2 MHz 34.5', 10.125 MHz 20.7',
14.2 MHz 33', 18.14 MHz 12.5' or 37',
21.3 MHz 29.5', 24.95 MHz 30.5', 28.4 MHz 23.4'

It's easy to see why 31' doesn't work well on
30m, 17m, and 10m.
Yep, that's about right. I cut it at 51 x2 = 102 feet but I used
insulated wire...so if I want to bring down the antenna to correct it, I
should remove about 18 inches per side, right?

Pretend, for a minute, that I am NOT an antenna "purist" (not too hard a
task, you say?)

....Do I want to go out and correct it or just let the ATU compensate?