Sounds pretty much the same. Maybe I'll give the other one a shot, this g5RV
I have up now will never hold through a good wind storm where I fixed it.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Buddy Brannan" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2007 12:04 AM
Subject: Re: Tuning Ham sticks
> Probably not at all different. Standard design: 102 feet of 14-gauge
> stranded wire, 34 feet of 450-ohm ladder line with a PL-259 at the
> bottom. Seems fairly well made.
>
> Now this one W5GI antenna that was mentioned earlier...thing looks to
> be built very solid, nice insulated wire after the coax, so it won't
> get all corroded and crappy. It uses 31 feet of 300-ohm very
> heavy-duty twin lead instead of the ladder line. Seems to play OK for
> the horrible way I have it strung up.
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