Good morning and happy New Year list members,
This should be a fairly simple question for you all, but it seems to
escape me for some reason. As I keep waiting for my tribander to arrive
to put on top of the tower, I keep contemplating moving my G5RV from
it's current tree to a higher point on the tower. Two reasons drive
this decision, one being the obviously already-mentioned height, and the
second is that I want to straighten out the twin-lead portion that's
currently run at a right angle for a portion of it's length due to the
antenna's current installation point. If possible, I'm going to keep
the current endpoints, but I was considering moving the center to a
point near the top of the tower. The tower is a simple 40 foot Rohn
HDBX, and the G5RV is a standard 80-10 with 33 foot of twin-lead from
the center hanger to the balun.
The question is this: How far below the tribander should the
hanging point be, and how far away from the legs should I keep the
twin-lead? My thought was that if I were to do this, I'd obviously have
to come up with some sort of standoff to hold the twin-lead away from
the tower legs, possibly something out of PVC or the like. Or is it
best to just scrap the idea and keep it where it's currently placed...in
a tree about 10-15 feet away from the tower with about 8 feet of the
twin-lead running parallel to the ground (obviously running at a right
angle to the majority of the twin-lead which runs down the tree trunk)?
Thanks all for your opinions and assistance, and hope you all have a
safe and happy New Year!
73,
Mike - WA0ZOG
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