Tom Osborne wrote:
> The most common is probably 'center fed zepp.' Other names include
>the 'tuned doublet' and 'dipole with tuned feeders.'"
That's about normal: given a choice of three names for something, radio
amateurs will ALWAYS choose the one that creates the most confusion.
The original zeppelin antenna was intended to be trailed behind an
airship, so it was definitively END-fed. More specifically, it was a
half wave, end-fed through a quarter-wave of twin open-wire to keep high
RF voltages away from all that hydrogen. In other words, it was a
trailing J-pole.
Earthbound hams and others adapted this idea to make a horizontal
antenna which was end-fed with mostly vertical open-wire... and OK, that
is still recognizably a zepp. But then somebody tied a second wire to
the open end of the feedline, and called it a "double zepp". Since this
is the most confusing and inappropriate name imaginable, it's the one
that hams have insisted on using ever since.
Let's get back to basics here: you're not using a zeppelin antenna
unless your ham station (a) can fly, and (b) can go up in a fireball.
That should narrow it down.
--
73 from Ian G/GM3SEK 'In Practice' columnist for RadCom (RSGB)
http://www.ifwtech.co.uk/g3sek
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