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1. [TowerTalk] Gotham Antennas (score: 1)
Author: K3OMI@aol.com
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 10:16:24 EDT
I am rebuilding my 1961 novice station and want to buy a V-80 or V-160 Gotham vertical. Need instruction sheet for same. Also any info would be appreciated abt the history of the company in NYC or af
/archives//html/Towertalk/2003-09/msg00459.html (6,719 bytes)

2. Re: [TowerTalk] Gotham Antennas (score: 1)
Author: "Jim White, K4OJ" <k4oj@tampabay.rr.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 20:32:26 -0400
FLASH SWITCHED TO 40 METERS WORKED KZ5JM (sorry/flashback - couldn't resist) K4OJ [Remember the KZ5 multiplier!] K3OMI@aol.com wrote: I am rebuilding my 1961 novice station and want to buy a V-80 or
/archives//html/Towertalk/2003-09/msg00462.html (8,019 bytes)

3. Re: [TowerTalk] Gotham Antennas (score: 1)
Author: "David L. Thompson" <thompson@mindspring.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 12:34:34 -0400
Let's hope he does not try to duplicate the Gotham beam with those drooping elements and soft boom. Boy have we come a long way with antennas since Gotham (but the owner made a mint too). Dave K4JRB
/archives//html/Towertalk/2003-09/msg00480.html (7,298 bytes)

4. [TowerTalk] Gotham Antennas (score: 1)
Author: Lee Buller <k0wa@swbell.net>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 06:59:26 -0800 (PST)
Back in the days when men were men and ham radio operators were kids, there was a company that sold verticles-Gotham. I've alway wondered what the deal with the Gotham antenna was all about. All I ha
/archives//html/Towertalk/2006-01/msg00506.html (7,949 bytes)

5. Re: [TowerTalk] Gotham Antennas (score: 1)
Author: "PASOTR/KC1DI" <elbc2@pivot.net>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 10:16:09 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
Hi Lee, I remember well the Gotham Verticals. Had one when I was a novice back in 1966.. It was basically made of EMT and had a large Base Loading coil . knowing nothing of how verticals worked in th
/archives//html/Towertalk/2006-01/msg00510.html (9,304 bytes)

6. Re: [TowerTalk] Gotham Antennas (score: 1)
Author: K4SAV <RadioIR@charter.net>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 09:48:32 -0600
"Work the world with your Gotham vertical. Amazing performance. Radials not required. V80 vertical $16.95. An appeal to intelligence. A product consistently advertised in QST month after month, year
/archives//html/Towertalk/2006-01/msg00511.html (9,251 bytes)

7. Re: [TowerTalk] Gotham Antennas (score: 1)
Author: "W4ZW" <w4zw@comcast.net>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 11:59:10 -0500
intelligence. Ahhh, I remember it well!! Especially since my friend, Danny K4ZRA, was the poster boy and Danny lived a block from me in Owensboro, KY. The ad proclaimed all the great DX Danny worked
/archives//html/Towertalk/2006-01/msg00514.html (8,158 bytes)

8. Re: [TowerTalk] Gotham Antennas (score: 1)
Author: "Joe Subich" <W4TV@subich.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 10:56:42 -0500
Lee, The Hy-Gain AV-18VS is essentially the same as the old Gotham vertical - except that Hy-Gain may use better quality material. The Hy-Gain manual is: www.hy-gain.com/man/pdf/AV-18VS.pdf 73, ... J
/archives//html/Towertalk/2006-01/msg00520.html (8,726 bytes)

9. Re: [TowerTalk] Gotham Antennas (score: 1)
Author: "Tom Osborne" <w7why@verizon.net>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:41:42 -0800
Hi Lee Boy, you bring back some good memories with this one. Yes, they had a vertical about 20 feet long or so with a loading coil at the base. You had to go out and switch the tap on the coil. You c
/archives//html/Towertalk/2006-01/msg00523.html (9,591 bytes)

10. Re: [TowerTalk] Gotham Antennas (score: 1)
Author: "Van K7VS" <wa7fab@cdsnet.net>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 18:30:23 -0800
Well, I owned both the vertical and their two element quad. The vertical was a couple of ten, maybe twelve foot sections of aluminum tubing with one piece sliding into the other. You mounted with a c
/archives//html/Towertalk/2006-01/msg00527.html (9,335 bytes)

11. Re: [TowerTalk] Gotham Antennas (score: 1)
Author: "Van K7VS" <wa7fab@cdsnet.net>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 18:33:28 -0800
Well, I owned both the vertical and their two element quad. The vertical was a couple of ten, maybe twelve foot sections of aluminum tubing with one piece sliding into the other. You mounted with a c
/archives//html/Towertalk/2006-01/msg00528.html (9,356 bytes)

12. Re: [TowerTalk] Gotham antennas (score: 1)
Author: "jeremy-ca" <km1h@jeremy.mv.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 14:40:47 -0400
Good stories from all. Gotham started in Harlem, NY, moved when the area got unhealthy, to Queens for a short time and then to Florida. The average kid, and some older hams, that bought the verticals
/archives//html/Towertalk/2007-07/msg00398.html (14,146 bytes)

13. Re: [TowerTalk] Gotham antennas (score: 1)
Author: "Bill Eisinger" <eisinger@q.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 12:47:49 -0600
I was a kid in high school in the late 60's and plunked down the money for a Gotham quad....rotated it with an Alliance TV rotor...worked a couple hundred countries with it before I replaced it with
/archives//html/Towertalk/2007-07/msg00399.html (15,488 bytes)

14. Re: [TowerTalk] Gotham antennas (score: 1)
Author: <donovanf@starpower.net>
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 16:54:28 -0400 (EDT)
Gotham advertised as the Gotham Hobby Company from New York in the early 1950s. They offered some antennas at less than $10.00. They moved to Florida in the mid-1950s and dropped "Hobby" from their n
/archives//html/Towertalk/2007-07/msg00407.html (14,933 bytes)

15. Re: [TowerTalk] Gotham antennas (score: 1)
Author: "Pete Raymond" <n4kw@wildblue.net>
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 18:48:59 -0400
Well my paper route would only allow for a V80 in 57 as KN1BFX, dropped the N later that year. It would be interesting to find out who the owners were and if they were hams. As for K1JYN and W1CMH. C
/archives//html/Towertalk/2007-07/msg00411.html (17,414 bytes)

16. Re: [TowerTalk] Gotham antennas (score: 1)
Author: Chuck Sudds <chuck@dxham.net>
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 17:10:10 -0500
All this talk about Gotham antennas and such has me thinking back to those days of yore..... when we were teenagers and would try anything to make some contacts! I started out at 11 years old and my
/archives//html/Towertalk/2007-07/msg00413.html (8,165 bytes)

17. Re: [TowerTalk] Gotham antennas (score: 1)
Author: "jeremy-ca" <km1h@jeremy.mv.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 19:52:04 -0400
And I can still remember Frank as a scrawny K1LP high schooler at the PRA (Providence Radio Association)clubhouse when I visited there while in the Navy and stationed at Newport. I KNOW I cant fit in
/archives//html/Towertalk/2007-07/msg00417.html (8,817 bytes)

18. Re: [TowerTalk] Gotham antennas (score: 1)
Author: David Gilbert <xdavid@cis-broadband.com>
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 17:17:50 -0700
I did a little internet sleuthing and didn't find any modern references to W1CMH, but K1JYN is supposedly none other than Dave, K6LL. Dave AB7E _______________________________________________ _______
/archives//html/Towertalk/2007-07/msg00420.html (7,624 bytes)

19. Re: [TowerTalk] Gotham antennas (score: 1)
Author: "Tom Osborne" <w7why@verizon.net>
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 18:32:59 -0700
Hi Bill I also had one of those TB-3 Hornet tri-banders (same as the Swan) I remember the ad in QST--"TB-3 tri-bander. $55.00. $5.00 down--$5.00 per month. Just clip out the coupon and mail." Sent in
/archives//html/Towertalk/2007-07/msg00424.html (17,383 bytes)

20. Re: [TowerTalk] Gotham antennas (score: 1)
Author: n8de@thepoint.net
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 23:10:51 -0400
From my index file: K1JYN Central Falls, RI .. worked 1959,1960,1967,1972 on 80m 40m and 20m CW Also worked K1JYN/1 on 40m and 80m CW in 1966 W1CMH Cranston, RI .. worked on 20m CW in 1957 SS Memorie
/archives//html/Towertalk/2007-07/msg00428.html (19,469 bytes)


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