My 2 cents, As a relatively new ham lacking any real world skills with regards to making antenna's, the G5RV has worked for me. I am very limited in time, I am not normally home more than 10 days a month so my spare time is limited. But I still have some time to enjoy the hobby and personally I would rather spend what time I have getting on the air. That being said the G5RV has done what it promised, I have made contacts on 80 through 10 meters and I always am able to tune any band with less than 1.5 SWR using the K2's internal tuner. I am only running 10 watts and have made contacts as far away as the Ukraine from my east coast QTH so it seems to getting out. I'm sure there are better antenna's and some day I would like to have something more than the G5RV but for now it works for me. Anyhow I don't really understand why the G5RV is so controversial.
Respectfully submitted, 73's Ed K3ENV -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/OT-G5RV-s-and-variants-tp7569905p7569962.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
