Did it ever work? are the antennas close together? are they close to 
anything they might couple to?  that really is too low for a G5RV 
though I know people who make it work at that hight including me on 
vacation each year but if they're close to something that might be 
the problem. If there are sharp bends in the coax that might cause a 
problem. Are you 100% sure the coaxes are good? is there one for each 
antenna in to the shack or do you have a common one to a switch 
outside and then have the antennas hooked up there?  With some of 
this info we might be able to help a little more. Is that SWR issue 
present on both antennas? or just the G5RV?At 03:22 AM 04/02/2006, you wrote:
>I am having trouble getting on the air. I have a G5RV at only about 15
>feet, and a CushCraft R7 with the bottom at about 12 feet. I can get a
>decent SWR on 10 meters, but as I go down the bands the SWR gets worse
>until at 80m. it is about 9:1. The transciever, a Kenwood 850, works fine
>against a dummy load. The cox cables are fine. I even swapped in a new
>g5rv. I could get either antenna higher with guyed masts, but think one of
>them should work better without doing a lot of elevating. Any ideas?
>Tom Karnes K6FUN