[TowerTalk] G5RV vs. 2 element yagi

[Steve Hunt]

John,

I have a 2-element home-built Broadband Hexbeam at 20ft and a 132ft 
centre-fed doublet with its apex at 20ft. The Hexbeam consistently 
outperforms the doublet on 14MHz and up. There's an audio A/B comparison 
on my website - it's the last recording on this page: 
http://www.karinya.net/g3txq/hexbeam/broadband/

This recording was not just a "one off" - it's typical of what I hear 
all the time. By the way, the orientation of the doublet favours the US 
on 20m.

73,
Steve G3TXQ

John Geiger wrote:
> I am currently limited to a G5RV for HF following the demise of a miniquad I
> was using.  I am looking at getting a Mosley 2 element tribander, but I
> can't get it up very high right now-maybe 25 feet or so.
>
> I know that the low height will hurt performance, especially on 20 meters.
> Given the low height of the antenna, would it still be a much better
> performer than the G5RV.  The G5RV isn't up that high either, but has done
> nicely on 30m, 40m and 80m where I have been using it the last few years.
>
> I guess I am just trying to figure out whether the 2 element beam would be
> worth the extra money, or if it would be pretty similar to a G5RV, given the
> low height it would be at.
>
> 73s John AA5JG
> (ex: W5TD, NE0P)
> 6M WAS #1275, 6m VUCC #1260
> 2m VUCC #615, Satellite VUCC #129
>
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