Hi Tom --
Wasn't the TB-3 designation from Swan? I agree that Swan
bought the Hornet line but I remembered the Hornet line
with model numbers like TB-500, TB-750, and TB-1000. I
had a TB-750 for several years. It was a great beam and
my first but you sure had to be careful in tightening that cast
aluminum boom to mast fitting or you could crack it.
Boy, all this nostalgia is getting to me. I had recently gone
back and written down some of those stories from my early
ham days in the 50's and later and I put them in a section
on my web pages. It's been fun but I never did own a
Gotham.............. sure wished over a lot of Gotham ads,
however.
73,
Jim - K5LAD
On 9 Jul 2007 at 18:32, Tom Osborne wrote:
> 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@contesting.com
> > [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of jeremy-ca
> > Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 12:41 PM
> > To: Pete Raymond; James C. Garland; towertalk@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@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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