[TenTec] More Argonaut V ?s

[Donnie Garrett]

David:
No the Argonaut 5 does not use the conventional PTO setup that was used 
it the Corsair's and the earlier rigs. You won't have any frequency 
shift problems as typical of the Scout.  I have a Argo 5 and it's a very 
nice rig for the money.  The tuning is very smooth, and the rig is very 
stable!  It has a nice receiver section in it.  In my opinion the 
receiver in the Argo 5 sounds superior to the Jupiters receiver ( I have 
owned 2 of each).  The DSP used in the Receiver section works  quite 
well.  It's narrowest filter setting is 200 Htz and it does a fairly 
respectable job at that bandwidth.  I normally leave mine set at around 
1800 Htz for normal  cw listing then narrowing on down if necessary. The 
receiver has good sensitivity!  I tend to use the Receiver RF 
Attenuator  most of the time on 40 meters to help keep the receiver from 
overloading.  The CW sidetone is excellent and has a nice soft sound 
with NO artifacts (meaning no thumping or ticking) in the headphones 
while sending cw. Overall Im quite pleased with the Argonaut 5.  I think 
you will be also.

                                                                         
                                                73, Don / WA9TGT

Kreinberg, David wrote:

>Hello all,
>
>I had some more questions regarding the Argonaut V. Does this rig use a PTO
>for tuning? I'm not too sure
>if I'm a PTO fan, or not. My Corsair II's PTO tuning seems smooth, but I
>understand these can come down
>with troubles later in life.
>
>Also, does the Argonaut V suffer the frequency shift problems when using the
>internal keyer as the Scout
>seemed to? I have read many stories of Scout owners complaining of
>instability problems when using its
>keyer and going at higher code speeds. Something to do with how the
>microprocessor couldn't keep up
>with doing multiple tasks of some such thing.
>
>Thanks for your insight.
>
>73 de Dave, NR3E
>
>
>
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