[Antennas] G5RV

[Wes (N7WS) and Linda]

At 10:40 AM 1/11/2003 +0000, Tom Horton wrote:
>At 07:17 11-01-03 -0800, you wrote:
>>Using the G5RV with ONLY resonant ladder line feed is
>>a very impressive antenna.
>>
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>At that point it is no longer a G5RV, is it? It's more like a McCoy dipole.
>Tom K5IID

Actually, if being described by Varney makes an antenna a "G5RV" then a
102' dipole fed entirely with open wire line *is* a G5RV.  In his very
first paper he describes *exactly* that.

It's a poor copy but look at Fig. 2 here:

http://users.triconet.org/wesandlinda/g5rv.pdf



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