[TenTec] Antenna names

[Ken Brown]

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