No, I have the standard version of the g5rv. Mine is made of rg58 but otherwise
its completely standard. It doesn't transmit well on 160m but now it at least
tunes for it and does transmit a bit better.
Tom
Tom Brennan KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP
web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html