Over the last few decades, the G5RV antenna has become one of the most popular and widely used "all around" multi-band antennas in the world.  Even though it is a "compromise" antenna, it has good overall performance on most hf ham bands when used with an external tuner, and allows coax as an entry feedline to the radio equipment eliminating the need and hassle of ladder line or twinlead. It should be noted that some internal tuners just don't have enough range to "tune" it.

It was invented in 1946 by Louis Varney, whose call sign is G5RV ("SK" on June 28, 2000, age 89).  Hence the name, the G5RV antenna.

The basic G5RV antenna measures only 102 feet across the top for 80 thru 10 meter operation, and is fed at the center through a low loss 34 feet feed-stub.

The All Band HF Dipole was constructed and refined for use with my Z-Match Antenna Matching Unit at my previous residence in Melbourne, Victoria from 2004 - 2007

Despite the space limitations of a suburban block I wanted an antenna that would be suitable for all the HF amateur bands, including the so called WARC bands and ideally including the 160 metre band. The antenna system should also be useful for other HF services i.e. broadcast, military etc.

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A multi-band wire antenna that performs exceptionally well even though it confounds antenna modeling software
Article by W5GI ( SK )