"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 after year, has
to be good."
http://www.w8ji.com/gotham.htm
The problem with the Gotham was its flakey advertising claims. If you
ran it without eadials, it and the feedline were pretty much a random
radiator, with random results. If you added a lot of radials (even
though advertising claims said you don't need them) it worked like any
other 23 ft bottom loaded vertical, which was not very good on the low
bands, and on the high bands a dipole was much better. If you are
planning to build something, I wouldn't recommend copying this, but it
is an interesting piece of folklore.
Jerry, K4SAV
Lee Buller wrote:
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>
> 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 had to go on was old QST's from
> the 50's and since I had no money in the 60's I could never afford a
> commercial antenna.
>
> I've been pondering building a verticle using parts from the hardware store
> that could be used on 80 meters. Like using a loading coil at the base of
> the antenna. I am sure that this has been done before, but as I was thinking
> about it....the Gotham antenna company came to mind.
>
> Is this what they did with their 80 meter verticle...use some sort of
> loading coil?
>
> Lee -K0WA
> "Liberal Arts Major pretending to be an RF Engineer"
>
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>
>
>In our day and age it seems that Common Sense is in short supply. If you
>don't have any Common Sense - get some and use it. If you can't find any
>common sense, ask for help from somebody who has some common sense.
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