[TenTec] Argonaut VI

[Mike Bryce]

rick,

that’s the story I got from John Henry.

I was one of the beta tester for that rig and that question came up right from the start. Where were 60 and 12 meters. That’s what John Heny told the group of  beta testers.

If and when Mike gets the Argonaut VI back into production, from my point of view, I’d go with 60 meters and forget 12….but that’s just me

Mike, WB8VGE

Mike Bryce, WB8VGE
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> On Mar 6, 2017, at 1:41 PM, rick at dj0ip.de <Rick at DJ0IP.de> wrote:
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> Actually it had nothing directly to do with cost.
> The reason those bands are not in the radio is, there was no space to place
> the bandpass filters.
> Of course they could have found a larger box, which would have cost more, so
> maybe that's the reason John said "cost".
> 
> According to Jack in a private conversation we had, in order to make space
> for another band, he would have had to reduce the size of the cores of the
> BPF inductors, which would slightly reduce their performance, so he opted to
> leave 12m out.  We never spoke about 60m.
> 
> According to Mike in a private telephone conversation with me, the new
> Argo6's will have 12m.  I don't think he commented on 60m.  And he did not
> say how they are doing it but if he says 12m is in, then I have no reason to
> doubt him.
> 
> 73 - Rick, DJ0IP
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