Reg Edwards wrote:
It has a cloverleaf radiation pattern only in the 20m band, sometimes
praised as desirable if you work from South America into both Europe and the
USA as G5RV often did.

It has a multi-lobed pattern on all frequencies
above 14 MHz. A 102' dipole has a beautiful clover-
leaf pattern on 17m.

But the biggest joke of all is the half-size G5RV. Mr R L Varney must be
turning over in his grave.

Antennas are scalable with frequency, Reg. The
102' G5RV is a pretty good antenna for 80m, 40m,
20m, and 12m. That makes the 51' half-sized G5RV
a pretty good antenna for 40m, 20m, 10m, and 6m.
When Mr. Varney designed the G5RV antenna, there
were no WARC bands.
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp


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