— October 11, 2024
G5RV Jr.
This is the WORST wire antenna I have ever bought!! In the HF band 2.2 SWR was the best I could get with VERY narrow BW.
It was 1.1 starting at 68Mhz through 160 MHz - great horizontal VHF antenna. Do the calculations using 28' of wire/leg see where it resonates!
The construction is fine but the design is terrible. I may add 4.5' to each leg or reduce each leg to 16'.
My homemade 20m dipole had good BW and 1.8 - 2.0 SWR. My Windom was similar and good over many bands.
My suggestion is not to buy this antenna.
Radioworld is awesome, no complaints here and people are great!
Radioworld Note: This is NOT a resonant antenna. ALL G5RV antennas require the use of an antenna tuner, and have very critical mounting requirements. Failure to observe this will result in the antenna performing poorly.
jeff — March 02, 2021
better than expected
needed an all band antenna i could throw up on a pole and work the world. tall order I know, but this antenna did exactly that. tunes with a manual tuner from 80 - 10 and probably would do 6 meters if i had a tuner for it. used on ssb phone and lot of ft8 and psk31. like I said worked the world with under 90 watts. the warc bands tune perfect on this. looking for a good wire antenna?? buy this!!
larry — April 27, 2020
n/a
not bad very basic antenna I am using it as an inverted v portable the components are nice porcelain insulators nice piece of coax and about 4 ferrite beads as choke . the connections at the center connectors are all sealed it would have been nice if they would have used a more flexible insulated antenna wire for portable use . thing you may want to check the solder on the connector pin mine was not soldered