[Elecraft] G5RV antenna experience on K3

[Keith Heimbold]

I am probably the last person in the world to comment on this but in my. very limited experience as a ham I have found resonant dipoles to be superior to a G5RV. I have used properly cut dipoles that I made myself for 20m and 40m and they worked much better than the G5RV I had.  You may want to consider multiple resonant dipoles in parallel separated by plastic clothes hangers. One of my old Elmer's had one of those and he did very well with it.

Just a thought from a total newbie. 

Keith
AG6AZ

Sent from my iPhone please excuse typos

On Mar 9, 2012, at 10:56 AM, raroth7 at comcast.net wrote:

> Hi there-- 
> 
> Am considering putting up a g5rv antenna and was wondering what 
> experiences K3 users have with this antenna. Is an external tuner 
> necessary? Is internal KAT3 up to the task of taming this wire? 
> 
> Any hints will be helpful 
> -- 
> 73 de Dick, ka1oz 
> Elecraft K3/100 
> GAP Titan-DX Antenna 
> 
> PS...Tried sending via my gmail account, but haven't seen it posted.  I appologize for any wasted bandwidth.
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