[Elecraft] OT:. G5RV's

[Wes Stewart]

I know handbook descriptions have declared this for years.  They're simply 
wrong.  The folded part is a transmission line, it doesn't radiate and it has an 
impedance different from the antenna.  Why not just add a hundred feet or so of 
transmission line to a 10' dipole and call it a 160 antenna? Doesn't work, does 
it?  Use the same logic on your example and it doesn't work either.  Sorry.

On 8/4/2016 5:34 PM, Nr4c wrote:
> Let's see,  102 + 33 = 135. Isn't that pretty close to the length of an 80 Meter Dipole?  The G5RV looks like two back-to-back inverted "L" antennas. The twin lead is not feed line but part of the radiator.
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