How about my favorite;
"Everyone can afford a Gotham Vertical. Order your Gotham vertical today!"
73, -=Rog-K9RB=-
----- Original Message -----
From: antipode <antipode@ne.mediaone.net>
To: David L. Thompson <thompson@mindspring.com>
Cc: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 9:30 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Hornet
>
> Good old Gotham! Their ads in the Ham mags were legendary, at least for
> staying power.
>
> "If K6INI can do it, you can too!"
>
> Sure do miss those days.
>
> Bill Sievers
> W5IQJ
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> "David L. Thompson" wrote:
> >
> > I remember the Hornet beams as I had a TB-4H (also called the
TB-1000-4).
> > Hornet (Oklahoma) did make an earlier series with a TB-500 and TB-750
but
> > not sure about the egg beater loops. I do recall Hy-Gain made early
> > tri-banders with egg beater loops as one ham had the
> > 3 el tri-bander with loops that were fairly long. K5IIN had separate
> > 10/15/20 3 el Hy-Gains all with egg beaters in 1959. The Hy-gains ads
said
> > they broadened the coverage and added stability to the antenna in windy
> > environments.
> >
> > Hornet sold out to Swan in the late 1960's and the bigger antennas were
sold
> > for about a decade.
> >
> > Telrex also used egg beater ends on their line of monarch antennas for a
> > while. I don't recall Gotham building an antenna with egg beaters but
they
> > did try to build just about everything else. A local had the 3 el 15
meter
> > beam and the boom was so soft that you could bend it standing on it.
We
> > got him to switch to a better boom and the beam played well. The
longest
> > boom Gotham sold was 20 feet and they crammed the 4 el 20 and multi
element
> > 10 and 15 onto this boom. One other manufacturer that used egg beaters
was
> > the W4GL series of driven beams out of the Miami area circa 1955-1958.
The
> > W4GL beam was my other choice when we bought the Gonset Tri-Bander
(their
> > ads spoke of no coils and showed Ohms picture).
> >
> > Most of these beams were not optimum by todays standards (before W2PV
and
> > optimizing programs). Only Telrex had a test field to graph the
patterns
> > and check front to back. Most of the rest just put some tubing together
on
> > a boom (and added tuned traps) and hoped for the best!
> >
> > 73 Dave K4JRB
> >
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