[TowerTalk] G5RV vs 40M dipole

[Jim Brown]

On Tue,4/28/2015 10:00 AM, Tom Osborne wrote:
> I still think if you have room for a 105 foot antenna, it's way better 
> to put it up as a dipole and feed it with twin lead.  There is nothing 
> magical about a G5RV except on 20 meters.  On other bands it is just 
> some wire that you force RF into with a tuner. I can do that with my 
> 80 meter dipole on any band. 

Threads tend to stray from the original question. Remember that the 
original post in this discussion was from a ham who didn't have room for 
a half-wave dipole on 40M, and the best advice he got was to fold the 
ends down to fit it. He also wanted to cover other bands, so I added the 
advice of building a fan dipole for those other bands.

73, Jim K9YC