[TenTec] Antenna names

[Frank]

Don't let the antenna name get you down.  "That which we call a rose by any 
other name would smell as sweet".
Wm. Shakespear Romeo and Juliet Act2 Scene 2
Frank K4VMO
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken Brown" <ken.d.brown at hawaiiantel.net>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2014 2:41 PM
Subject: [TenTec] Antenna names


> 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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