I knew a guy who had a G5RV about 4 feet above his 6 foot fence due to 
neighbor complaints when he had things up high and his worked fine too.
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From: "Colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
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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