[Elecraft] G5RV antenna experience on K3

[Rick Bates]

If you have access to some space (I hide my antenna in the HOA 'common area'
trees, no one looks up or even uses that area), then what I use may be of
interest to you.

A 340' dipole (170' per leg, ~5/8 wave on 80 meters) fed with window line
through a DX engineering common mode choke (coax to the rig) matches on all
bands 80-6 with the K3/100.  The pattern will change from band to band
(cloud heater on 74, but I worked ZL7 last night on 40).  But for a 'simple'
antenna, I'm quite pleased.  

Although adding a few tens of feet more wire would give me 160 M coverage,
it works so well now I don't want to mess with it.  It's only 30-50' above
dirt.  If I had pines instead of oaks, it would work better.  ;-)

I used an 'Antenna Launcher' to get the wires over the trees and as I put it
up on a weekday when everyone was at work/school, no one knows its there.

http://www.antennalaunchers.com/antlaunching.html 

73,
Rick
WA6NHC