[Antennas] McCoy feeders

[Harvey&Bessie]

	Whoever started calling a center-fed antenna a "zepp" probably did not
do us a favor. The origination of the term "Zepp" is from the word
zeppelin. The HF antenna first used on dirigibles (solid frame,
lighter-than-air, vessels like the Hindenberg (designed by Count
Ferdinand von Zeppelin) and the American versions: the Akron and the
Macon. These were often all called zeppelins. The zepp antenna consisted
of a half-wave dipole suspended from a transmission line made of two
parallel wires a quarter-wave long and separated with spreaders along
their length about 4 inches apart. The dipole was end-fed from one side
of the transmission line. This antenna was simply trailed out from the
underside of the dirigible. This was said to be an improvement over the
simple trailing wire antenna in that the radiating element was farther
away from the main part of the passenger compartment on the bottom side
of the airship.
Harvey/W4TG