KD8NIV
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Like to hear from you guys using the G5RV Jr dipole, what all bands can you get on this dipole ?....
If you only have room for the 51ft Jr version then put it up and give it a try. Try to use a low loss coax and the least amount because the match on most bands is really bad on the Jr model and coax will have additional loss when used under high VSWR conditions.
A friend of mine has a similar problem with space and uses a 50ft center fed dipole up about 25ft and fed with home made ladder line to a modified Johnson Matchbox tuner. The ladder line has very wide spacing, about 4 to 6 inches and runs to his house sitting over the tops of glass bottles he has placed on the ground.
On both 80 and 40m he puts out a similar or better signal compared to other stations at the same distance to me running much larger antennas and the key to his success is the extremely low loss feed line and tuner.
prcguy
I bet that's fun to mow over. Then again it's probably just dirt out there right?
Any of you guys using the Optimized G5 dipole ?...
On his site says its 92ft long, ladder line is 41ft, and needs 70ft coax on it....
It would be fun trying to fi one of these in the space I have, lol....without going under the lines in the yard...like to be able to get the 80m band but at this point, not sure I could....about the only way I can get this is lay the last 20ft on the ground, because of the power lines going over head...
Been listening to my friends on 80m they sounded good on my end....
Yeah thats the one I was looking at, it says on his website its 92ft long, and has 41ft ladder line, and needs at least 70ft of coax.....
Since I dont have any trees on my lot I can use I have to set some other things to put the wire on, not sure what I can use, not sure what to do with the last 27ft of wire....then the ladder line, dont no what I can do with it, Id have about 20ft on the ground, and that 70ft of coax, well thats another thing, dont no where I can string it too, you cant just roll it up, can you?......
I don't have the Jr, but I've been able to tune 160 meters on my external tuner!Like to hear from you guys using the G5RV Jr dipole, what all bands can you get on this dipole ?....
With a tuner, I've worked 160 meters and every band up to 6 meters!A full size G5RV is optimized for 20m and works ok down to 80m. The half size version would be best on 10m and will work down to 40m but a little degraded from a full size 40m dipole. Since the match is only good on one band you have to be careful adding long lengths of small coax since the mismatch losses will add up fast.
prcguy