For my all band antenna I have a DX Engineering 1:1 Tuner Balun with their 80m dipole and 300ohm ladder line kit.
I cut the feedline at 93' per their instructions and at 50ft. high the Flex 5000's internal tuner will tune it on all bands 160 through 6m. -----Original Message----- Seriously, for lazy man's antenna, I highly recommend the following if you do not want to do directional antennas. A horizontal loop that is a bit over 80m in length as high as you can get it. Feed it with 450 ohm ladder line to a SCG or CG type antenna coupler. It will be multiband from 160-10m (and maybe 6m). It will be a quiet antenna (DC grounded) and do reasonably well on the low bands and better on the high ones. On the upper bands, you will have lots of lobes, but there is a good chance one will hit where you are going. G5RVs have losses. The above antenna configuration will have less. If you invest in a FLEX-5000 with the RX2, then I'd consider a second vertical antenna using the same antenna coupler approach. A vertical element or 43' or more will cover 160-10m and maybe 6m). Lay down radials or a ground screen. Having a vertically and horizontally polarized antennas make a GREAT combination for doing diversity RX. The vertical should make a good "noise" antenna for doing beam steering to enhance your signal of interest (null out the "offending" signal). _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/
