Thanks, much, Lou, and your thoughts on why the guy's price might be 
reasonable are well taken.

Again, space is not an issue for me, but getting the center of a G5RV up 
more than 40 feet is an issue, since my tower is only 35 feet high.

That could be a problem for the Windom too.

73 from Tom Behler:  KB8TYJ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Louis Kim Kline" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 10:41 AM
Subject: Re: G5RV VS Windom


> Hi.
>
> I should have read down further before commenting, because now I have a
> couple of additional comments.
>
> For quality materials, especially considering what the cost of copper has
> done, I do think his price is reasonable.  You can buy the cheap G5RVs, 
> but
> they are going to most likely be made of soft drawn number 14 stranded
> copper that will stretch and break after a couple of years.  I had one of
> those and after two years, I was splicing new wire in after the original
> wire corroded badly and broke.
>
> My second point is that one of the big trade-offs between the Carolina
> windom and the G5RV is size.  The Carolina windom requires more space to
> set it up.  I cannot comment on how the performance compares because I
> don't have a big enough yard to install it; I barely get the G5RV in the
> yard.  What I will say is get the G5RV up high if you want the auto tuner
> in the 480 to tune it.  If you don't get that antenna at least 40 feet in
> the air, I doubt that you will get it to play with the internal tuner on 
> 75
> meters.  If you don't mind running an external tuner such as the LDG or 
> MFJ
> tuners, then you might gain a little bit more flexibility there, and if 
> you
> want to run a manual tuner then you probably won't have too much of a
> problem getting it to load.  But bear in mind that at75 meters, with very
> low height i.e. less than 40 feet or so, the impedance goes very low, 
> which
> makes the antenna very inefficient at best, and difficult to load at 
> worst.
>
> 73, de Lou K2LKK