[TowerTalk] G5RV vs 40M dipole

Jim Brown jim at audiosystemsgroup.com
Sat Apr 25 21:26:05 EDT 2015


On Sat,4/25/2015 5:10 PM, Bry Carling wrote:
> I'm not a fan of fan dipoles. G5RV all the way!

And I consider the G5RV and all of its variations a last resort. Their 
patterns are different on every band, they cannot be choked to kill RX 
noise. Just because a tuner can shove power into the transmission line 
doesn't mean that they are radiating efficiently.

73, Jim K9YC




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