[Elecraft] Windom Antennas

[N2EY@aol.com]

In a message dated 6/6/03 4:46:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
rlewis@staffnet.com writes:


> In the 50's I worked MI to CA on 6M AM using a dipole hung across the
> ceiling of a single story house. I think it says more about
> propogation that day than it does about the merits of an indoor
> dipole.
> 
Exactly!

Does anyone remember Gotham antennas? They ran the same ad in QST for years, 
citing the wonderful results obtained with a Gotham "all band" vertical. What 
they did not tell you was that those results were obtained at the peak of the 
sunspot cycle. 

The Gotham "all band"verticals were nothing more than about 22 feet of 
surplus aluminum tubing, some mounting straps, a clamp or two, and a big piece of 
Miniductor for a loading coil. You supplied the coax, base mounting, clips for 
the taps on the coil, ground system, radials, connectors, weatherproof housing 
for the coil, etc. It was "all band" in the sense that you could find taps on 
the coil that would  permit a low SWR on each band. No claims of how efficent 
a radiator it was on each band, though. Of course you had to go out to the 
antenna and change taps every time you changed bands!



73 de Jim, N2EY


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