[ICOM] G5RV & AT-500

[Alan Leith]

Hi Dave,

Long time -- no see.  Periodically I see posts from you but have not 
heard you for ages.  Jack ('XT) and I will be going to the Maritime 
DX Forum next weekend outside Halifax.  It would be a great place for 
you to visit and a lot cooler for you too :-).  Maybe Dayton next year?

I thought of the broken twin lead thing but I would have thought that 
if it was broken, I wouldn't be able to tune it on any band.  I did 
make one QSO on 17 last night with 4O3T and could hear other stations 
but the problem I outlined occurred.  I couldn't hear much, if 
anything on 80 (very noisy) but made QSOs on 40, 30 & 20 as 
well.  I'm only hearing a VE3 & TI8 in QSO on 20 right now.

To say that conditions suck would be kind.  Too bad 'cause I need 
KH8S (of course) and was looking forward to IOTA.

Hope all is well with you.

73

Al, VE1AL
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  At 12:44 AM 7/28/2006, you wrote:

>Alan;
>
>Check to see that ONE side of the twin lead is not broken.
>
>Bad grammar, but you get the idea <g>
>
>Dave, W5WP
>
>A G5RV FANATIC!
>
>Alan Leith wrote:
>
>>I've finally raised by G5RV again, after it came down a few weeks 
>>ago in an accident.  An old tree fell across one end and...well 
>>that's not the problem.  Anyway, before it fell down, the antenna 
>>was performing well on 12, 17, 20, 30, 40 and 80.  I tune the 
>>antenna with my AT-500 and SWR was below 1.5-1 on all those bands.
>>When it went back up today, I was able to tune it on the same bands 
>>EXCEPT 17M.  For some reason, while I can tune it down to 1.35-1 in 
>>the pre-set mode, once I switch to auto tune, the SWR goes up to 
>>3-1 and the power output is cut to 50W.
>>As far as I know, nothing has changed, except that this time, I 
>>pulled one end tighter (I had not done that the first time) and 
>>about 3 1/2 feet of the end is folded down over a tree branch.  Is 
>>it possible that this has made an electrical difference in the 
>>length of one leg?  But why does it tune so well on all bands 
>>except 17, on which it worked perfectly well before?  I'm not 
>>interested in using the antenna on 10 or 15.
>>Can I do anything to fix it?  It is the only antenna I can put up 
>>for 17M and that's one of my favorite bands.
>>Help.
>>73
>>Al, VE1AL
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