Thanks, Colin.

I am just going to have to work under some pretty tight conditions out 
there, and just don't want to waste the effort if things are not likely 
going to work.

So, again, you are very encouraging, and I appreciate your and everyone's 
patience.

73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 11:08 PM
Subject: Re: Another G5RV Question


> it seems to play reasonably well with part of the latter line on the 
> ground,
> or horrizontal.
> As i said before, a guy at the camp area we were at had his g5RV ten feet
> off the ground, with almost all of the latter line on the ground, fed with 
> a
> chunk of 50 ohm coax...his internal tuner tuned it and he was able to 
> check
> into the nets, and make a few dx contacts along the way.
> He talked to japan and somewhere in europe on that antenna without even
> really trying.
> Ours had part of the latter line lying on the ground as well and it was
> definitely not all vertical.
> It worked pretty nicely as well...so the short anser is, don't worry about
> it, it doesn't seem to drastically effect the performance of the antenna.
>
> 73
> Colin, V A6BKX
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tom Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 8:07 PM
> Subject: Another G5RV Question
>
>
>> Hi, folks.
>>
>> Upon further inspection, it turns out that there is a nice tall oak tree
>> behind our RV that I might be able to use as the center point for my 
>> G5RV.
>>
>> But, here's the question:
>>
>> I am not sure how high I'll be able to get the center up into that tree,
>> and
>> since the XYL might be helping me with this entire operation, I have to 
>> be
>> careful.
>>
>> My question is this:  Is is absolutely essential for the ladder line to 
>> be
>> vertical, or could a few feet on the bottom be horizontal without
>> degrading
>> the antenna's performance substantially?
>>
>> I don't think we'd have trouble getting the center up about 20 feet, but
>> 30
>> might be pushing it.
>>
>> It's just going to be hard to use a slingshot or whatever to safely get
>> the
>> center of the antenna up as high as I would like, given the close 
>> quarters
>> of the camp ground, and given my desire to save life and limb.
>>
>> Thanks for tolerating all of these questions, and I'll keep everyone
>> posted
>> if we can get something accomplished this week-end.
>>
>> 73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
>