[Elecraft] OT:. G5RV's

[Ken G Kopp]

As usual, Jim is correct ...

I have Lou Varney's original article.  The G5RV was designed as a 20M
--ONLY-- antenna.  It's now achieved some kind of cult ... read voodoo ...
status. (;-)

If one has an antenna that is partially fed with balanced line that's then
directly (!) spliced to a specific length of coax and then still requires a
tuner, why not run the balanced line directly to the tuner ... assuming it
has a balun ... or provide one at the tuner?

This same argument would apply to Varney's design for a 20M only dipole.

Maybe he didn't have a tuner of any kind, and wanted to use coax feed line
because there was a coax connector on his rig. (;-)

73

K0PP