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| + | ====== Argonaut V & Ten-Tec Radio Naming ====== | ||
| + | **From the Ten-Tec Reflector May 8, 2002** | ||
| + | The Argonaut V is the 'fifth' Argonaut. The first three were the 505, 509, and 515. The 535 was the fourth, and the 516 is the 5th. | ||
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| + | Which leads immediately to two more questions: Why was the 4th Argonaut called Argonaut II, and what about the Argo 556? | ||
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| + | There were two reasons we called the 535 Argonaut II - one was that the 505, 509 and 515 could be a 'series' of Argonauts, and | ||
| + | the 535 was the 'second' series of Argonaut. Also, the Argonaut II was merely the QRP version of the Delta II - it was easy to retain the "II" designation for both transceivers. | ||
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| + | We never referred to the Argo 556 as an Argonaut, admittedly this could be hair-splitting. When it was decided to name the 516, we | ||
| + | counted only the rigs that had been called "Argonaut" (505, 509, 515, and 535) to come up with the "V" designator. | ||
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| + | We considered a whole bunch of other ideas for names beforehand but nothing really stuck - and that's generally how we name our | ||
| + | transceivers. We kick around ideas until something that sounds like 'it' to a number of us presents itself. Often the name for the | ||
| + | rig comes from Al Kahn, K4FW - who named both the Pegasus and Jupiter rigs as well as a number of the previous models. | ||
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| + | Straying a bit here....but we came up with the name for Orion in much the same manner. After deciding not to call it the Omni VII | ||
| + | or some other Omni designator we tried various ideas out, until the suggestion of Orion was put forth by Stan Brock from our sales | ||
| + | department - and everyone immediately liked that one. | ||
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| + | The blame has been assigned! | ||
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| + | Scott Robbins, W4PA | ||
