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