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January 10th 06, 05:23 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna

Cecil Moore

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Any experience with the G5RV multiband wire antenna?

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W5DXP wrote:
It has
low loss on the ladder-line matching section and an SWR
of less than 4:1 on the RG-213 coax. Where are the losses?

At the ladderline/choke/coax junction I would suspect.

The only thing there that could be lossy would be the choke.
Why would a 1000 ohm choke be lossy?

It's a 3/8WL dipole on 75m, fed with low-loss ladder-line,
a parallel door knob cap, and an SWR of 1.3:1 on the RG-213
coax. Where are the losses?

Does that version use the choke? Being the data is incomplete,
hard to say at this point. But if there is loss, I can probably
find it.. :/

Yes, but the impedance at that point is very close to 50 ohms
and the choke has about 1000 ohms of choking impedance.

Well, maybe. The one I bought in 1988 was well designed with
a w2du balun and RG-8x coax. It worked well with a tuner and
I made lots of improvements as I learned more about it.

Hummm...Does that mean it's not really a G5RV anymore?

Call it a modified G5RV. It still looks like a G5RV.

Whatever I use will never mix
feedline types midroute to the antenna, I know that
for sure. It's like a crapshoot ...

Not a crapshoot at all - just an application of a series section.
Do you object to 1/4WL of 75 ohm twinlead feeding a full-wave loop?
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp

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