I sure do remember the Gotham antennas. My first antenna was a Gotham V80
vertical which operated on 80 up through 10 meters for the cost of $16.00
and some odd cents. The antenna consisted of two 12 foot length of aluminum
tubing.
Assembly was simply to slide one tube into the other until you had a total
length of 23 feet. A large coil was provided for 80 meters. Radials, well
mine was simply a wire to the vent pipe on the roof where my antenna was
mounted. I was sixteen back then and on July 26 1958 I worked VK0TC on 20
CW, now I want to tell you the electricity ran through my body for the next
two days. When the qsl finally came it took a week before I came back to
earth. Did the antenna work, I guess it did as I ran 75 watts back then and
my walls were filling up with qsl cards. As I recall Gotham was out of
Miami, FL. A qso and a time I will never forget.
73 Pete N4KW
----- Original Message -----
From: "James C. Garland" <4cx250b@muohio.edu>
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 10:10 AM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] antennas
>I DO remember all those Gotham ads. But, curiously, I never actually talked
> to anybody who actually was using one. Even in the 1950s, Gotham prices
> seemed impossibly low. I always wondered if they worked and how well they
> were constructed? And if nobody bought them, how did the company pay for
> all
> those QST and CQ magazine ads?
> Jim W8ZR
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com
> [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Carl Smidt
> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 7:34 AM
> To: towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] antennas
>
> Nostalgia is getting to me.
>
> Remember all those good old Gotham adds in the magazines?
>
> 73, Carl VE9OV
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom Osborne" <w7why@verizon.net>
> To: "Towertalk" <towertalk@contesting.com>
> Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2007 9:52 PM
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] antennas
>
>
>>
>>
>>
>>> They ALL work.Some work better then others,some last longer then >others
>>> still others are cheaper then others.
>>
>> How true!!
>> I had a Gotham 2 element quad up for about 5 years till the wind took the
>> antenna and mast down. Paid $27.50 for it. Oh yeah, I know, aluminum
>> spreaders, etc, won't work, but it did work. Better'n something else??
>> Dunno, but I sure liked it. 73
>> Tom W7WHY
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