[TenTec] For Sale: Ten Tec Argonaut V

[Kevin Purcell]

OT ... delete now!

On Sep 28, 2007, at 12:40 PM, ron wrote:

> On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 12:01 -0400, J. Crit Harley, MD, C.Ht. wrote:
>> For Sale: Ten Tec Argonaut V
>>
>> [...]  Shipped
>> to lower 48 for $725 (postal money order only). [...]
>
>
> "lower 48??"
>
> Ron, wb1hga
> "the 516 is a keeper"

Did this come up here (or QRP-L?) recently? It's an odd phrase (when  
you think about it) but it seems in common usage.

Geeks nitpick about it all the time

<http://zurich.ai.mit.edu/hypermail/thinkpad/2004-09/0247.html>

but it has a historical origin (from that brief period when the flag  
had 49 stars **)

<http://zurich.ai.mit.edu/hypermail/thinkpad/2004-09/0251.html>

and the whole of that thread.

Obviously were are going to have to force people to use CONUS instead  
or perhaps reclaim BC from those pesky VE7's :-)

** (for the humor-impaired) Yes, I know it never did.

> Homer: (pointing to the US flag) Please identify this object.
> Apu: It appears to be the flag that disappeared from the public  
> library last year.
> Homer: Correct. Now, we all know the thirteen strips are for good  
> luck, but why does the American flag have precisely forty-seven stars?
> Apu: Because this particular flag is ridiculously out of date! The  
> library must have purchased it during the brief period in 1912  
> after New Mexico became a state but before Arizona did!
> Homer: Uh, partial credit.

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Kevin Purcell
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