[TowerTalk] upgrading from a G5RV

[Jeff Carter]

Others may disagree, but I think it's worth doing just for the data.
I've been pleasantly surprised in the past by things that I didn't
think were going to work at all.

You won't lose a lot of signal at HF with that short a run of RG213.
My advice would be to do it.

Jeff/KD4RBG


---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:43:15 EDT
>From: KI9A at aol.com
>Subject: [TowerTalk] upgrading from a G5RV
>To: towertalk at contesting.com
>
>Gang-
>
>After some serious tree trimming, I now have room to fit a full sized wire
>antenna where my G5RV is right now. I am thinking about a 135' open wire fed
>dipole, as multi bands are needed.
>
>Question is this- there is now way I can get 450 ohm feedline into the
>shack.  The best I can do is about 30' of RG213, then the rest 450 ohm (  maybe
>90').  Is this going to be a waste of my time, or is it worth it? I'd  obviously
>use a balun to change over to 50 ohm feedline.
>
>73- Chuck KI9A