On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 01:44:10 GMT, John Phillips
wrote:

....

My only reason for using the G5RV at this QTH is that the 102' length
just fits on my small lot. And I'm sure open wire feed all the way into
a real balanced tuner (Johnson Matchbox etc) would be the best. But then
it's not a "real" G5RV and no more urban myths.

John,

Perhaps you should be pleased that you can string out a 102' dipole...
that is good.

If you feed it with low loss parallel wire line (parallel wire wire
line is not synonymous with low loss) all the way to the balanced
tuner, you should be fine. If the configuration presents a load that
challenges the tuner, increase the line length a little.

Varney did make mention of the configuration using just parallel wire
transmission line, but most people don't understand that to be one of
the described variants. I would call it a G5rv, it is closer to a G5RV
than most implementations.

Owen
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