[TenTec] Zepp

[Marty Hartwell]

Hi

I was reading the posts concerning the Zeppelin antenna. I did a search 
on the web
and got some picture drawings showing what I am familiar with. Also someone
said it was a trailing wire antenna, which is one I used from a bomber 
type in
the Navy, which is simply a spool of wire attached to an automatic 
matching device
and the wire is a random length, to install it we just strung out what 
we estimated to
be over a 100 feet, no real measurement done. In some cases we were able 
to get
a type of wire that was reinforced but usually it was just plain old 14 
gage wire we
were able to pick up at a hardware store or some such.
Yes Zeppelins may have used a trailing wire antenna I know our Blimps 
during and after
WW2 had them, but the Zepp used on the Zeppelins was supported in each 
end of the
main straight part of the top and fed with open wire feeder, and the 
feeder was whatever
it took to reach the tuner/matching device.
To the persons saying it is a G5RV antenna, it is not, the G5RV radiator 
is of a specific
length, and has a fixed length for the 75 Ohm feeder, if I remember 
right. I have used
a Zepp antenna, but not a G5RV.

Marty kd8bj