"Jerry" wrote in message
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"Reg Edwards" wrote in message
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The moral is - DON'T USE A G5RV.


Yup! I bought one in the late 80s and found that it was the craziest
acting
thing I had ever used! It most often
drove my Yaesu tuner bonkers; other times it would
settle down to an "acceptable" SWR. I fiddled with it
for a summer, and finally threw it out.

Hi,

Sorry to say that but you experimented a bad experience or have not enough
knowledge to use it properly.
I know several OM in ON that use G5RV, W3DZZ and alike, and even longwire of
about 20-30m that have similar results than mine.
And if the G5RV is always sold (thare a dozen variantes, see my website)
after decades, there is a good reason : this is because it works well !

Never hear on bands OM working with dipole and G5RV ? There are a lot !
better, G5RV offer you the best quality/price ratio !

73's

Thierry
ON4SKY

I then made me a
75 M doublet fed with ladder line. .......it's still up there.

Jerry
K4KWH

Specially one with any coax in the feedline.

If you've bought one, you've been robbed.

Use a random length dipole, longer than about 1/3 of the wavelength at
the
lowest frequency of interest. Choose a length which makes best use of
the
size of your backyard. Take the 450 or 600-ohm balanced line all the way
back to the shack. You will need a tuner and a choke balun at the tuner.
For multi-band operation you will need a tuner whatever you do.

If you find it inconvenient to feed the dipole in the middle, and you
have
a
relatively low local noise level, then feed it at one end and make an
Inverted-L of it. It will then very likely work very well also on 160
metres.

And you will never think of using a G5RV again !

By the way - Louis Varney, G5RV, a real genuine English gentleman, now
no
longer with us, designed his antenna to work most efficiently ONLY on
14.15
MHz, perhaps the best day-or-night, all-year-round, any part of the
sun-spot
cycle, DX frequency. It's very good. And you may not need tuner even
with
the coax. Works great with the old fashioned TS-520 with its built-in
tuner
!
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Reg, G4FGQ