Howard Kowall wrote:
Looking to buy a G5RV for 80 and 40 mtrs and maybe able to tune other bands
lots of diff brands of this antenna
can anyone suggest a manufacture
or maybe another alternative
thanx
howard


Howard,

I made a homebrew using ARRL information and some advice from this
group...pretty inexpensive and it continues to work well after 2 yrs.
With a decent ATU, you should get most bands. Mine won't tune 30M. My
G5RV is cut for 40M but does fairly well on 80M also. There is a longer
version cut for 80M. Mine is copper wire, 300 Ohm window line for the
feed and no balun. This comports with the original design, I think.

You can buy center and end insulators from many suppliers, including DX
Engineering (or just make your own: short pieces of PVC, for eg...spray
painted blk for UV protection).

One thing I might add to my G5RV (after listening to this group) would
be some ferrite beads on the coax at the end of the measured window line
feed.

For me, Building is more fun than Buying.

Good luck and 73

John
AB8O