Reg Edwards wrote:
Forget all about a G5RV. No sooner you modify it, it will no longer be a
G5RV. It was designed to be useful with an easy impedance match only at
14.15 MHz
His is the 1/2 size G5RV, i.e. 51 feet total length, designed for
28 MHz. Terrible for 4 MHz operation.
All you have to do, to obtain the best possible mutliband dipole for your
back yard, is to erect a high dipole of any length which conveniently fits
into your backyard, fed via a 450-ohm or 600-ohm transmission line, of no
particular lemgth.
He wants to use his internal autotuner. Your idea won't work for that.
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73, Cecil
http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp
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