Cecil Moore wrote in message

Cecil, I have experience on the bands on 20 thru 10, but less
than a couple of dozen chats on the other bands in as many years.
Yesterday I scanned 80 and heard a spanish station but the East coast
were piling on him. The point I am mentioning it is that my antenna is
also horisontal polarised on the top of the tower. So I went to
top band and scanned it for DX but heard NONE even tho the band was
busy.
I decided to key up and had a few contacts at around 1000 miles
and with less with 30 watts and got very good reports.

Is this about normal for your G5RV which is also horizontally
polarised? I have never had a G5RV or a verticle for that matter
The noise level was around S8 to S9 and this just represented
the conditions for just last night. Transmission line is 7/8 coax
Antenna SWR 1:1 @ 65 feet
Regards
Art





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Willy wrote:
I just started on hf bands and i usiing now a FD4 from Fritzel and I hear
all goods things about the G5RV.
Is that so, works it's also great on 10 and 15m?

Nope, it's not very good on 10m and 15m. It is especially bad on 30m.
It works well on 80m, 40m, and 20m with a tuner. EZNEC says it also
works well on 12m. A G5RV is not an all-HF-band antenna but I have
an all-HF-band antenna on my web page.