As usual, Jim is correct ... I have Lou Varney's original article. The G5RV was designed as a 20M --ONLY-- antenna. It's now achieved some kind of cult ... read voodoo ... status. (;-)
If one has an antenna that is partially fed with balanced line that's then directly (!) spliced to a specific length of coax and then still requires a tuner, why not run the balanced line directly to the tuner ... assuming it has a balun ... or provide one at the tuner? This same argument would apply to Varney's design for a 20M only dipole. Maybe he didn't have a tuner of any kind, and wanted to use coax feed line because there was a coax connector on his rig. (;-) 73 K0PP ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected]
