The last one I took down the cores at the place the twin lead meets the 
coax, the metal sleeves at least inside the ballem looking thing, were all 
in horrible shape with metal slivers all over the place in there. I'm not 
sure how that happened but most of it was metal shavings by then and it 
worked up to the end. I think the problem in the end was the metal shavings 
shorting it but I put the current one up and gave that to someone else to 
fix.
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From: <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2007 1:14 AM
Subject: Re: g5rv question


> Do what, Gary?  Both of my g5rvs are just attached with no cores. 
> Besides, even
> those with cores at the antenna will stilol show measurable rf at the 
> opposite
> end of the ladder line.  That's why the choke is down there rather than up 
> at
> the antenna.  However, most of the ones I've seen and all of the ones I've 
> made
> have no core at the mid point of the antenna.  I have two up now (one with
> copper wire and the other with coax) and neither has such a configuration. 
> One
> of mine is hime made and the other is not.
>
> Tom
>
>
> Tom Brennan  KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP
> web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html
>
> On Fri, 21 Dec 2007, gary wrote:
>
>> Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 22:27:41 -0500
>> From: gary <[log in to unmask]>
>> Reply-To: For blind ham radio operators <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: g5rv question
>>
>> Hi Tom,
>> You do not need to make a choke.  The ferrite cores inside the PVC where 
>> the
>> twin lead and the coax come together.  Spacing the twin lead about 3 feet
>> away from metal brackets works really well.  Gary KB2YAA
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "T Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 7:34 AM
>> Subject: Re: g5rv question
>>
>>
>> >    Gary:
>> >
>> > Thanks for the confirmation that vertical is better.
>> >
>> > I'm going to have to check too on whether I have enough coax from the
>> > ladder-line connection to where it goes into the conduit that runs into
>> > the
>> > shack to see if I have enough to make the choke that Tom suggested last
>> > night.
>> >
>> > But, first things first:  I have to make sure everything is 
>> > mechanically
>> > sound out there, and then get the ladder line to be vertical again.
>> >
>> > 73 from Tom Behler:  KB8TYJ
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "gary" <[log in to unmask]>
>> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> > Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 11:34 PM
>> > Subject: Re: g5rv question
>> >
>> >
>> >> Vertical is better and away from metal.  I had repaired my G5RV a 
>> >> couple
>> >> of
>> >> times.  Once my son ran over it and I had to shorten the coax about 7
>> >> feet
>> >> to get rid of a bad section.  the wind plays havoc with the coax to 
>> >> twin
>> >> lead connection.  There will be about 7 ferrite cores in the PVC 
>> >> center.
>> >> I
>> >> just slide them back while I made another connection and then 
>> >> reinstalled
>> >> them.  Gary KB2YAA
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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