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
Memories are made of this!
Don
N8DE
ex-W8QHW
Quoting Pete Raymond <n4kw@wildblue.net>:
> 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. CMH sounds familiar to me
> but cannot place either of them. Boy does this stuff bring back the
> memories.
> 73 Pete N4KW
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <donovanf@starpower.net>
> To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 4:54 PM
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Gotham antennas
>
>
>> 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 name.
>> Their ads mysteriously disappeared 30 years later, after multiple
>> address changes in Florida during the early 1980s.
>>
>> My only experience with a Gotham antenna when I and my pal Bill, K1JIV
>> were early teenagers in 1960. Bill had a rooftop V80 vertical and I had a
>> simple 20M dipole about 30 feet high. I was having better success with my
>> dipole, so Bill had to try a 20M dipole too. Suddenly I had competition
>> in the neighborhood! I don't think he ever used the V80
>> again. But the real competitors among the teenegers in Rhode Island
>> were K1JYN and W1CMH. Does anybody know who they are now?
>>
>> In the early 60s I was using a Harvey Wells TBS-50C, a home brew pair of
>> 1625s running 150 watts, and dipoles for 80 through 10 meters suspended
>> from a few trees on an 80x80 foot lot in the city of Providence, RI.
>>
>> Those were the days!
>>
>> 73!
>> Frank
>> W3LPL
>>
>> ---- Original message ----
>>> Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 14:40:47 -0400
>>> From: "jeremy-ca" <km1h@jeremy.mv.com>
>>> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Gotham antennas
>>> To: "Pete Raymond" <n4kw@wildblue.net>, "James C. Garland"
>>> <4cx250b@muohio.edu>, <towertalk@contesting.com>
>>>
>>> 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 didnt
>>> understand about radial systems. Attaching the coax shield to a ground rod
>>> just didnt cut it. Same could be said about some modern newbies and
>>> misleading info from some manufacturers.
>>>
>>> My 15M 3el stayed up fine for about 4 years and then my folks asked me to
>>> take it down since I was in the Navy and home as little as I could manage!
>>> Two years later I was working for National Radio in Malden, MA
>>>
>>> Carl
>>> KM1H
>>>
>>>
>>> KM1H
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Pete Raymond" <n4kw@wildblue.net>
>>> To: "James C. Garland" <4cx250b@muohio.edu>; <towertalk@contesting.com>
>>> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 2:09 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] antennas
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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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