I have a 40meter band xmit/recv antenna up with good swr and works great.
Cost me nothing but my time, and a plastic center insulator to strain
releive the zip cord (rather than tie a knot in the cord at the center. Just
rip down 33 ft of zip cord, tie a knot or use the insulator, and cut the
feedlinne section to a integral half wave long (20, 40, 60etc meters long).
If cut to a half wave (use a dip meter) the swr of the dipole will be
translated unaltered to the radio end of your feedline and 70 ohms is OK for
a swr of 1.4 and the xcvr will not care usually.

Great emergency antenna.



"pegge" wrote in message
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someone tried to feed a type g5rv antenna with ´european´ zip-cord ?
(european meaning double the Volts compared to USA, thus half amps
for the same lamp wattage)
Would yield a simple ant, peel the first say abt 15- 17 meters, splitting
them up to the dipole part and the the rest X meter to a balanced tuner
etc.
sorry if this has been up too many times, search did´nt give a clue!

Tnx for info, 73 Per / sm7aha malmo, sweden