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Old November 28th 06, 03:57 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
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Denny wrote:
Way to go Richard... That'll teach im to post anything about
antennas...

John, my immediate inclination without giving it any hard thought would
be to have them cross near the center lines as opposed to ends...
Now, I don't know about this using a balun as a transmatch... I
personally would not do that, but you may be perfectly happy with it -
especially if you only operate on one portion of the band and get the
antenna or feedline tuned so you have minimal reactance... BTW, you
will love the folded dipoles, they are just happy antennas...

denny / k8do

Thanks, Denny

You know, I used the folded dipole first, but I think the G5RV
outperforms it, but not on 30M and not on 17M, two bands I have interest
in. Frankly my own interest in placement, while not trivial, is not
that important...I just missed antenna threads in the group.

John
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Old November 28th 06, 05:10 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
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jawod wrote:
You know, I used the folded dipole first, but I think the G5RV
outperforms it, but not on 30M and not on 17M, ...


http://www.vk1od.net/G5RV/

shows why the standard G5RV doesn't work well on 30m, 17m,
and 10m. If you want 30m operation, shorten the matching
section to about 20.5 feet. If you want 17m operation,
lengthen the matching section to about 37 feet. EZNEC
says that will give you a 50 ohm SWR of ~3:1 on 30m and
~2:1 on 17m. When I was running a G5RV, I had pluggable
lengths of ladder-line so I could vary the length of the
matching section from 20 feet to 36 feet for good
performance on all HF bands. Somebody (I forget who) used
remote controlled relays to accomplish the "tuning".
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73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com
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