That's very true, there's always having a G5RV and then hanging dipoles cut
for the bands you most often use and stacking them with adequate separation
which very likely is what I'll do down the road. I love the TS-2000 and
it's been getting pretty heavy use the last, well, week now. I've had it
over a week in fact. Wow, time does fly when you're having fun.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Forst" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 11:02 PM
Subject: Re: more G5RV stuff
> John,
>
> Of course there are dipoles that are multi-band resonant such as Alpha
> delta, Hy Power, etc. And the bands not resonant can be tuned with the
> tuner with results no worse than your G5RV. Of course this is where you
> learn the shortcomings of your internal tuner.
>
> BTW Good luck with the new rig. had mine over 6 years and I've been very
> happy with it.
>
> 73, Steve KW3A
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 10:51 PM
> Subject: Re: more G5RV stuff
>
>
>>I prefer them too but unfortunately can't put them up here though where
>>I'm
>> daily checking in to a couple nets on 40 meters, I very well may stick up
>> a
>> 40 meter dipole. It won't be all that high because of nothing to tie it
>> off
>> to, but I think if I run it along 1 path I'm looking at, I should be in
>> great shape.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Steve Forst" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 10:05 PM
>> Subject: Re: more G5RV stuff
>>
>>
>>> Tom,
>>>
>>> First, good news on the power supply. Sounds like no problem.
>>> I think your G5RV sounds typical. Following is a link to a site with
>>> some
>>> computer modeling of the G5RV. If I'm following this correctly, the
>>> first
>>> batch of numbers shows swr's for all bands for a 102 ft. long dipole fed
>>> with coax, or 300 ohm twin lead, or 450 ohm ladder line. Some of the
>>> numbers are pretty high as you would expect.
>>>
>>> Then comes a batch of numbers showing that same dipole fed with coax,
>>> but
>>> with a 300 ohm section (typical G5rv). You can see how the numbers
>>> change,
>>> and the examples you gave seem to be in this ballpark.
>>>
>>> The G5RV is what it is, and while I used one in the '80's, I prefer
>>> coax
>>> fed resonant dipoles. To each his own.
>>>
>>> Here is the link:
>>>
>>> http://www.qsl.net/k2hq/g5rv.htm
>>>
>>>
>>> 73, Steve KW3A
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "T Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 9:09 PM
>>> Subject: more G5RV stuff
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi, all.
>>>>
>>>> Can someone tell me what an acceptable SWR picture would be for a
>>>> 102-foot
>>>> G5RV antenna?
>>>>
>>>> I re-oriented my G5RV antenna today, by making the ladder-line run
>>>> pretty
>>>> much vertically from the antenna feed-point at the top of my 35-foot
>>>> tower,
>>>> to the coax that then goes into my shack from the base of the tower. I
>>>> checked the connections between the ladder-line and the coax feedline,
>>>> and
>>>> they still seem to be good.
>>>>
>>>> My SWR's are a bit better, and the auto-tuners on both my IC746 and
>>>> Kenwood
>>>> TS480 now tune the antenna on 40 meters (which I couldn't say before),
>>>> but
>>>> the SWR's still seem quite high to me.
>>>>
>>>> On 40 meters, I get an SWR anywhere from about 5 to 1 down to about 4
>>>> to
>>>> 1.
>>>>
>>>> The antenna has its best SWR readings on 20 meters, which you'd expect,
>>>> but
>>>> even here, I can't get the SWR to go much below about 1.8 to 1 in the
>>>> center
>>>> of the band.
>>>>
>>>> Again, at least now, the auto-tuners in both of my HF rigs will tune
>>>> the
>>>> antenna, but I'm wondering whether it's even safe or wise to use the
>>>> antenna
>>>> under these conditions.
>>>>
>>>> 73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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