Any body dealing with antennas in this group, what I read was pretty off
color and off subject. Want to know what a CCD antenna is really
supposed to do compared to say a delta loop...Just put one up and it
seems too good to be true compared to my well known hot signal 40 meter
delta...what is your opinion and please reply all so I will get a person
response. dont think Ill be reading this group everyday...who cares
about the british pound? EH? thanks Murray K5MDM

Richard Clark wrote:
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 20:44:33 GMT, "pegge"
wrote:

someone tried to feed a type g5rv antenna with ´european´ zip-cord ?
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.


Hi Per,

Hard to apply the name g5rv to this, but that makes no difference
anyway. Simply call it a dipole driven with close spaced twin lead.
That twin lead will be 50 to 70 Ohms characteristic impedance. It
will also have a suspect dielectric loss. This does not make it a bad
antenna. There will be the usual high loss with high SWR - depending
upon the gauge of the wire.

In short, no worse than an ordinary antenna used outside of its
natural resonance.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC