*Running 126 feet of wire... 63 feet in each direction... Center fed with
450 ohm Window Line. It is most assuredly Not a G5RV. But my friends keep
wanting to call it a G5RV. We can work 80 thru 6 meters with a good manual
tuner. Is it the best antenna in the World? Of course not...... But at this
Rental Property with some restrictions, we can talk and hear about the same
as others using Fan Dipoles and Dedicated to the Single Band Dipoles.
Everything in life is a compromise. Can I unbalance the antenna and offset
the Window Line an inch from the dead center and call it a Windom? This
would clear up everyone's insistence that my antenna is a G5RV..... Just
Joking Folks....*
*
73 from Wade/KJ4WS*
On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Ken Brown <ken.d.brown@hawaiiantel.net>
wrote:
> 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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