[CW] New QTH...

[Werner 'Joe' Jochem]

> Hello All,
>
> Last saturday, I moved to a new appartment.
>
> I am back in the area, where I was born and where I grow up the 20 first
> years of my life.

Congrats Steph, have a good time in your new qth.

> I will erect a G5RV, and also would like to erect one vertical (8-band, no
> radial).
>
> What do u think about the GAP TITAN DX?

Don't forget the fact that the vertical feeding line of a G5RV is a
radiating part of this antenna system. On the higher bands a G5RV is more a
top loaded vertical than an doublet/dipole. I built several G5RVs during the
last years. By the way: I never used a balun between the 50 ohm coax cable
and the twin lead line (mostly I used 450 ohm wireman ladder line). I never
achieved reasonable SWRs on _all_ bands. But with the commonly built in
antenna tuners it was no a problem to match this antenna.

I have no experience with the GAP Titan but some years ago I had got a R7
vertical (40 - 10m, also without radials). Compared to an inverted vee
doublet 2x20m (up 15m in the feeding point) there was no great difference.
Only on 40m the R7 was slightly better than the doublet.

73 cwfe
Joe DK7VW

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