Hi
I was reading the posts concerning the Zeppelin antenna. I did a search
on the web
and got some picture drawings showing what I am familiar with. Also someone
said it was a trailing wire antenna, which is one I used from a bomber
type in
the Navy, which is simply a spool of wire attached to an automatic
matching device
and the wire is a random length, to install it we just strung out what
we estimated to
be over a 100 feet, no real measurement done. In some cases we were able
to get
a type of wire that was reinforced but usually it was just plain old 14
gage wire we
were able to pick up at a hardware store or some such.
Yes Zeppelins may have used a trailing wire antenna I know our Blimps
during and after
WW2 had them, but the Zepp used on the Zeppelins was supported in each
end of the
main straight part of the top and fed with open wire feeder, and the
feeder was whatever
it took to reach the tuner/matching device.
To the persons saying it is a G5RV antenna, it is not, the G5RV radiator
is of a specific
length, and has a fixed length for the 75 Ohm feeder, if I remember
right. I have used
a Zepp antenna, but not a G5RV.
Marty kd8bj
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