I just looked in some of my old ARRL Handbooks. The earliest I find the chart
described as “Practical arrangement of a shortened antenna” is in the 1948
edition of the handbook. The 1944 edition has a very similar chart talking
about multi band antennas but the description is somewhat
I was also 16 in 1956, and do remember trying a few antennas. I had a 3
half waves in phase antenna for 40 meters, and it did the job nicely,
but my first antenna was a 40 meter dipole fed with 75 ohm parallel
feedline. It worked fine with my homebrew 75 watt 6146 transmitter with
a
Bob: My memory from 1956 is a bit thin, I was 16 then, but I don't
remember RF inductors wound on "cores", unless you count a plastic coil
form with a 5-pin base to be a "core." Not sure ferrite had been
invented. [:-) The Pi-network was a big deal then, those of us who
couldn't afford the
The same antenna, although not named the G5RV, is described in the 1956
ARRL Handbook, Chapter 14, page 343. Fig 14-19 "Practical arrangement
of a shortened antenna." It may have been described in an earlier
publication, however the 1956 Handbook is the earliest I have for
reference.
I first learned of the G5RV Antenna back in early 1963 in Malaya ~ as
the Editor for the *M*alayan *A*mateur *R*adio *T*ransmitter *S*ociety's
/NewsLetter/ . Jim, 9M2DQ (a rubber estate manager) sent me a copy of
Mr. Varney's article; a simple wire antenna that covered 80-40-20-15-10
Meters.
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