K5KVH sums it up in his opening paragraph ...
I have G5RV's original article introducing the antenna.
He specifically states that it is a 20M antenna, and yet it's
now somehow become a do-all-bands wonder ... an almost
"cult" thing. The same thing happened with the single-wire fed
Windom years ago. EVERYONE had them.
Why would one want to clobber up an open-wire fed dipole?
The G5RV version requires a tuner when used on bands other
than 20M, so why not bring the open-wire to the tuner and
dispense with the open-wire-to-coax transition kludge hanging
outside in the sky? It's a simple application made difficult.
73! Ken Kopp - K0PP
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