[TowerTalk] Musing on G5RVs, baluns et al......

[Steve Hunt]

I don't know where this "ham myth" comes from that the original G5RV was 
just a 20m antenna! Varney's original article published in the RSGB 
Bulletin, July 1958, is entitled "An Effective Multiband Aerial of 
Simple Construction". In the first paragraph Varney explains that:

"Operation on 1.8Mc/s and 3.5Mc/s was an important requisite, but 
efficient operation on 7, 14, and 28 Mc/s was also required"

In the same article he also discusses how it operates on 21Mc/s

How can people read that, and then claim that the original G5RV was 
"just a 20m antenna".

Steve G3TXQ

On 03/02/2011 11:32, Jim Thomson wrote:
> ##  My understanding was the original G5RV was just a 20m ant.  It would
> be similar to using a 40m dipole  on it's  3rd harmonic on 15m.  Make a dipole
> 99-100' long...and it will resonate on 20m..on it's 3rd harmonic.
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