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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