I used to get out pretty well on 80 with my G5RV but in order to do that I had
to have it 40ft up and flat topped. Used to work dx with it in the 80m window
on a reguar basis.
Tom
Tom Brennan KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP
web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html