Don't let the antenna name get you down. "That which we call a rose by any
other name would smell as sweet".
Wm. Shakespear Romeo and Juliet Act2 Scene 2
Frank K4VMO
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Brown" <ken.d.brown@hawaiiantel.net>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2014 2:41 PM
Subject: [TenTec] Antenna names
The Zepp was a one sided antenna, with a quarter wavelength openwire
feedline to a halfwave wire. ....
Hams are funny about naming antennas. For example, a Zepp antenna may have
been clearly defined as above, but then people make modifications that
diverge so much from the original meaning of the name it makes no sense to
keep using that name. Make it into a dipole, and call it a "Double Zepp."
There is no way a Double Zepp could ever be used the way a "real Zepp" was
used on a Zeppelin....
Or make the horizontal wire longer, and call it an "Extended Zepp." But
then it is not the length it needs to be a normal Zepp. So why keep
calling it a Zepp?
Then there is the G5RV antenna. The "inventor" G5RV said there is no such
thing. He built a dipole and experimented with various lengths of ladder
line and coax, to try to find a combination that worked good on multiple
bands. He said it was just a dipole, but the ham community called it a
G5RV. Now there are hams who claim that a specific length dipole, with
specific lengths of ladder line and coax feeding it are "genuine G5RV
antennas" and the anything else is not. Other hams think that any dipole
fed with ladder line is a G5RV.
DE N6KB
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