Youpi, je les ai presque tous ! merci à K8ZT pour le 505 que je recherchais depuis 2 ans !  Manque le 516, encore un peu cher pour un collectionneur.

Le must dans cette série limitée à 800 exemplaires.Quand on a la chance d'en trouver un, on ne le lache plus ! ( pour être sur d'en avoir un, j'en ai acheté 2 exemplaires le même jour sur e-bay UK) - Le logo KW est celui d'un ex-distributeur Ten-Tec anglo-saxon - 

Le PTO a besoin d'une graisse neuve ? voir la procedure chez K9ew  ,  pub de l'époque , la notice ( 2Mb), et quelques photos de la bête ouverte  (on est passé au ci epoxy depuis le 509 ) et du mécanisme d'affichage

- Un vrai plaisir à utiliser sur 40m.

- Des modifs également proposées mais pas forcément nécessaires. La notice (7Mb)   

L'Argonaut II modèle 535, 1991, 5 W ssb et cw, et fm, am en réception, couverture générale émission et réception - le seul à disposer des bandes WARC - ( acheté en Allemagne )

- pas de photo de l'intérieur, mais lui, je l'ouvre souvent !

- améliorations relative à la CAG : faite mais celà en vaut-il la peine ? je n'en suis pas convaincu - ce qui est sur c'est que le réglage de la platine FI est un peu délicat à trouver. - un filtre à largeur de bande passante réglable de 700 à 2500 Hz, très efficace..

- un appareil performant et qui fait tout, pourtant décrié par la presse US, ce qui en a réduit anormalement la diffusion.

Le backlite n'éclaire plus....ici la bonne adresse pour en trouver un neuf pour 5 £. La réparation n'est pas compliquée, demandez des précisions à l'auteur si nécessaire.

La notice en pdf  part1,  part 2,  part3,  part4,  part5,  part6,  part7   pub de l'époque

Un transverter 28 Mhz / 144 Mhz : 1210 - 8 Watts en sortie : en cours de dépannage...ne figure plus au catalogue - dommage

Les liens ad'hoc- la marque ten tec - le musée virtuel - revue des antiquités - l'ARRL en parle... - les liens techniques - les notices de TX obsoletes

et plus d'actualités sur le wiki Ten-Tec , de l'aide avec le support Ten-Tec en ligne,  la Ten-Tec mailing list,.... 

Je possède toutes les notices suivantes et puis les communiquer sur demande par mail ou poste selon la définition souhaitée. PM3A, argonaut 505, 509, 515, 525D, 535, Delta 580, Triton II, 1208. 1210,  ts120v & ampli 100 w tl120 de kenwood

les boutons de commande de VFO de la série qrp

A Ten*Tec History Lesson...( from W8KC website )

Do you know how the name "Electro-Voice" came about? Since I am from SW Michigan where Electro-Voice currently resides, the story we heard was that Knute Rockne (legendary ND Football coach and professor of Chemistry) needed a device that he could use during practice so that the team members could clearly hear him. This company (then in South Bend, Indiana I believe) built him a PA system that Knute referred to as his "Electric Voice". At least that's the story as told around that part of the country. That was back in the 1930s so some embellishment of the story since then is quite possible. Some say that there were also some ties to the Heath Company but I could never substantiate that. Reid, K7YX

Scott Robbins, W4PA Ten*Tec Amateur Radio Product Manager, adds: That story is correct. The PA system referred to was set up by Al Kahn (K4FW). Mr. Kahn grew up in South Bend and started Electro-Voice there in the 1920's and the story of how he named his company has been accurately repeated to you. After selling E-V in 1968, Mr. Kahn bought a 15 acre piece of land and had a two story building built right across the street from the Electro-Voice plant in Sevierville, TN., and named his new company Ten-Tec. Mr. Kahn was also directly involved with Heathkit's beginning's in Benton Harbor, MI in the late 1940's (just down the road from Buchanan). Mr. Kahn "donated" a train car load of war surplus electronic parts to Heath, and that load of parts became the foundation of the O1 oscilloscope, Heathkit's first electronic project. As of January 2001, Mr. Kahn continues to be the chairman of the board of Ten-Tec, is still active daily on HF CW and at age 94 is enjoying his well-deserved retirement in southwest Michigan.

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Others are telling me that the late-80's 535 Argonaut II was #4.
I have another email stating that the Argonaut I was the 505, 509, and 515 inclusive; Argonaut II was the 535
Actually both of these lines are correct, but not at the same time.

Does that makes any sense?

The Argonaut V is the 'fifth' Argonaut. The first three were the505, 509, and 515. The 535 was the fourth, and the 516 is the 5th.Which leads immediately to two more questions: Why was the4th Argonaut called Argonaut II, and what about the Argo 556?

There were two reasons we called the 535 Argonaut II - one wasthat the 505, 509 and 515 could be a 'series' of Argonauts, and the 535 was the 'second' series of Argonaut. Also, the Argonaut IIwas merely the QRP version of the Delta II - it was easy to retainthe "II" designation for both transceivers.

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.

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.

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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Scott Robbins, W4PA