[Elecraft] OT - G5RV antenna & baluns

[Ken Kopp]

K5KVH sums it up in his opening paragraph ...

I have G5RV's original article introducing the antenna.
He specifically states that it is a 20M antenna, and yet it's 
now somehow become a do-all-bands wonder ... an almost 
"cult" thing.  The same thing happened with the single-wire fed 
Windom years ago.  EVERYONE had them.

Why would one want to clobber up an open-wire fed dipole?  
The G5RV version requires a tuner when used on bands other
than 20M, so why not bring the open-wire to the tuner and 
dispense with the open-wire-to-coax transition kludge hanging 
outside in the sky?  It's a simple application made difficult.

73! Ken Kopp - K0PP
k0pp at arrl.net