>From what I can discover, Captain Varney, G5RV, published his antenna design in England in 1946. I was referencing the comments made about it by John D Heys, G3BDQ, in his book "Practical Wire Antennas". You are quite right! It seems like everyone who find an article by Captain Varney thought that was the "original" article! Actually Capt. Varney was a prolific author and active Ham before the war and that continued until the 1990's. His call is now held by the Mid Sussex Amateur Radio Society who writes of him, "Louis Varney was the president of M.S.A.R.S. for 37 years until his death in 2000. In later years he was still climbing trees trying to improve on his famous "G5RV" antanna! (sic)" Perhaps one of our friends from G-land can find the original article. It was published in 1946 according to Heys. Ron AC7AC
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, now I'm confused. Some years back, I remember reading "the original G5RV article" on the internet - but now I can't find it anywhere on the 'net. I have found lots of references to "the original G5RV article", but not the article itself. Worse, the references don't agree with each other! Some say it was in the November 1966 issue of RSGB Bulletin, while others say it was July 1958. Both those dates seem too "new" to me, because coax certainly wasn't new even in 1958. My 4th edition RSGB Handbook (copyright 1968) doesn't have a thing on the G5RV, either. It does have the W3EDP end-fed, though - 84 foot wire and 17 foot counterpoise. Does anyone have a scan of the original G5RV article? _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
