Take a look at the W5GI antenna at the following website:
http://www.w5gi.com/main.htm
     It sounds like a good replacement for the G5RV.

Richard Tomaszewski
VE2 BRT

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2007 11:07 PM
Subject: Re: Tuning Ham sticks


> How is your G5RV set up?  Mine plays best on 40, second best on 75 and 
> 20's
> right there too. It's a little low in the band where it's best after we
> fixed it, but still plays great. I had to reattach the feedline a few 
> weeks
> ago so we ended up taking about 4 inches off the ladder line portion. The
> SWR is a little lower in frequency on the bands than it was but funny 
> thing
> is, I think the antenna's working a lot better now than it used to.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Lou Kline" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2007 10:50 PM
> Subject: Re: Tuning Ham sticks
>
>
>> Hi.
>>
>> Has anyone tried two of these as a dipole on 75 meters, and if so, how 
>> did
>> you make out?  I find that a G5RV really plays badly on 75 meters in this
>> location, and when a friend swept it with an antenna analyzer, it is
>> apparent why.  On 3.925 MHz where our section net for NTS meets, the
>> impedance without an antenna tuner is just 4 ohms!  It is much healthier
>> down around 3.500 MHz.  It speaks volumes about the MFJ auto tuner 
>> because
>> it will even transform a load like that, but it actually brings the SWR 
>> at
>> the radio down to 1.4 to 1, but the efficiency is terrible!  Since I use
>> 75
>> so much, I'm looking for a better multi-band antenna and plan to scrap 
>> the
>> G5RV as soon as I can find something suitable that will fit in my yard.
>>
>> I've been tempted to look at the ham stick idea as a way to get a quick
>> and
>> dirty antenna playing on one spot frequency on the band, knowing full 
>> well
>> that the bandwidth will be really tight down there.
>>
>> 73, de Lou K2LKK
>>
>> At 07:04 AM 5/19/2007 -0700, you wrote:
>>>Hi Butch,
>>>
>>>I am tuning them individually and plan to combine them later as a dipole.
>>>
>>>God bless,
>>>Mark
>>>God loves you!
>>>My ham radio lists.
>>>http://lists.topica.com/lists/funhamradio.
>>>http://groups.google.com/group/funhamradio-list
>>>My personal website
>>>http://funhamradio.bloki.com
>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>From: "Butch Bussen" <[log in to unmask]>
>>>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>>Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2007 6:46 AM
>>>Subject: Re: Tuning Ham sticks
>>>
>>>
>>> > If you have them set up as a dipole, you want to tune both ends the
>>> > same.
>>> > If you tune one and not the other, you're efectively changing the feed
>>> > point.  Remember, even though we feed them with coax, dipoles are a
>>> > ballanced antenna.
>>> > 73s
>>> > Butch Bussen
>>> > wa0vjr
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> Louis Kim Kline
>> A.R.S. K2LKK
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>