[TowerTalk] Gotham antennas

[Tom Osborne]

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 my $5.00 and got the Hornet.  No credit check for a 16 year old kid 
back in 1957 :-)  73

Tom W7WHY


> I replaced the Gotham with a 3 el Swan Hornet Tri-bander...another old 
> name.
>
> Those were the days.
>
> 73's,
> Bill, AA7X
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: towertalk-bounces at contesting.com
> [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of jeremy-ca
> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 12:41 PM
> To: Pete Raymond; James C. Garland; towertalk at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Gotham antennas
>
> 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 at wildblue.net>
> To: "James C. Garland" <4cx250b at muohio.edu>; <towertalk at 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 at muohio.edu>
>> To: <towertalk at 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 at contesting.com
>>> [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Carl Smidt
>>> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 7:34 AM
>>> To: towertalk at 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 at verizon.net>
>>> To: "Towertalk" <towertalk at 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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