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From: Steve Hunt <steve@karinya.net>
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Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 11:17:58 +0100
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Let's not perpetuate the myth that the G5RV was designed as a single band 20m antenna!

It's worth reading what Varney himself said about his design requirements in his first article about the antenna in 1958, which he entitled "An effective multiband aerial of simple construction":

"Since only an average size back garden was available it was not deemed worthwhile to construct a beam for the DX bands. Operation on 1.8 and 3.5 Mc/s was an important requisite, but efficient operation on 7, 14 and 28 Mc/s was also desired. The aerial to be described was evolved and proved to work splendidly from 1.8 to 28 Mc/s."

I don't know how the myth began that Varney set out to design a 20m monoband antenna ????

Steve G3TXQ




On 09/07/2013 08:10, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
Most people don't even know what a G5RV is. It is NOT a multiband antenna, it was a 20 meter(ish) dipole fed with coax. The dimensions were not chosen by some radio magic, the length of the top section was the size of Vareny's garden.


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