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Re: [TowerTalk] Twinlead- Zepp

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Twinlead- Zepp
From: bob finger <finger@goeaston.net>
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 14:52:56 -0500
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I have called my inverted vee and flat top center fed tuned antennas 
"doublets" for 40 years now.  Maybe it is a regional thing.  Until Tom 
mentioned it, I always heard "double Zepp" used when the antenna was a 
full wave each side of center.  True north?  Surely even  razor beams 
are not that narrow.....73 bob de w9ge
Tom Rauch wrote:

>Since that is dipole used where it is not 1/2 wl long the
>term "double Zepp" is pretty common, although my dictionary
>calls a non-halfwave a "doublet antenna". I almost never
>hear anyone use the name doublet.
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