The open wire feed line on the G5RV is a matching section for 20 meters so it's length and impedance is critical That's why the ADs say it works on 20 but needs antenna tuner for other bands.
The same technique is used on the Butternut vertical only it uses 14 feet of 75 ohm cable. Ray W8LYJ Sent from my iPad ______________________________________________________________ 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]

