[Argonaut_USERS_Group] Fwd: Re: Argonaut users group

[Ed Tanton]

Some comments from Al Gulseth (WB5JNC)-I'm certain he won't mind my 
forwarding this to y'all.

>From: Al Gulseth <wb5jnc at qsl.net>
>Reply-To: wb5jnc at qsl.net
>To: Ed Tanton <n4xy at earthlink.net>
>Subject: Re: Argonaut users group
>Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2004 11:31:12 -0600
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>
>Ed,
>
>Thanks for your reply. In thinking more about this (I know, that gets me in
>trouble a lot) I was wondering what the consensus would be about opening the
>discussion up to cover legacy/classic/vintage (whatever you would want to
>call them) TenTecs (i.e., single-conversion 9 MHz IF line). I would venture a
>guess that many if not most of the Argonaut owners out there also own, have
>owned, or have an interest in the other TenTecs of that era.
>
>Here's my understanding of the "family ties" of that era TenTec rigs. Making
>an educated guess (i.e., without having studied the schematics) it would seem
>to me that the Argonaut 505/509s and possibly 515s are likely just Triton
>I/II/IV/540/544s without the afterburner, or to take it from the other
>direction: after he learned that my son was being switched to tuba in high
>school my son's Jr. Hi band director quipped "The tuba's just a trumpet on
>steroids." I.e., is the Triton/540/544 series basically an "Argonaut on
>steroids"? Furthermore, aren't the early Omnis just "enhanced" versions of
>the Triton/540/544 series? (The Argosy also fits into this scheme somewhere.)
>
>I guess that my point is that there may be more differences between the 505
>and 515 in some cases than there are between the 505 and Triton I/II, for
>example. The other reason for my "soapbox" is that the TenTec reflector
>spends a lot of bandwidth on topics that aren't of interest to me -- I stay
>subscribed but leave my account in vacation mode so I can post something if I
>want to. I just go to the website and look through the messages now and then
>to see if something is of interest. The SDR's may be the wave of the future,
>and I'm sure that the Orion is a very nice radio: but I doubt seriously that
>an Orion, MP, 756 Pro, 7800, etc. will ever grace my operating desk due to my
>Spartan/minimalist nature (plus the fact that I can't justify buying a radio
>that costs more than my ol' Dodge truck is worth HI HI!!)
>
>Ed, thanks for listening to my rant :-) You may do with it what you wish.
>
>73, Al
>

72/73 Ed Tanton N4XY <n4xy at earthlink.net>

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