If it will help, I will modify my For Sale listing below with two new options:
Either:
(1) New price of $475 for the package below as still listed (which is a
reduction of $25); or
(2) If someone really needs 80 meters as well to be useful, I will throw in my
80 meter module, but the price remains at $500.
I do have pictures of everything:
https://app.box.com/s/ex4m01situuuh1l550sfk3pa7ji8skrz
Kevin, K9IUA
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Kevin Anderson, Dubuque IA USA, K9IUA
k9iua (at) yahoo (dot) com
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On Wed, 3/15/17, Kevin Anderson <k9iua@yahoo.com> wrote:
Subject: FS: TT Scout (Model 555,NB) w/7 modules, mic, mobile mount, etc
To: tentec@contesting.com
Cc: k9iua@yahoo.com
Date: Wednesday, March 15, 2017, 9:24 PM
I offer for sale my Model 555 Scout
in a package deal:
(1) Base radio, w/NB, serial number 06A11025 (dating the
radio to June 1995)
(2) 701 hand-held microphone
(3) original manual (Dec 1995 print date, not one of the
poor-quality photocopies they started shipping later)
(4) power cord (basic cord w/out inline fuse, as sold to me
by Ten-Tec; AMP Mate-n-Lock at one end, bare wires at the
other end, ready for you to attach your preferred connectors
and your own preferred fusing)
(5) 7 Modules - 40M, 30M, 20M, 17M, 15M, 12M, 10M (in other
words, all but 160M and 80M); and
(6) an unused and somewhat rare mobile mount (which I bought
new from Ten Tec in 2000, but never put to use)
I am asking for $500 for the entire package, sold as is,
shipping included if not to an unusual location (i.e., not a
particularly expensive shipping location, but if so, then I
might need additional payment to help out).
The only problem that I am aware of with this radio is the
following: The three-way Speed/RIT switch does not work to
switch on the Speed setting (i.e, it doesn't activate the
keyer speed adjustment, leaving you left with the speed at
the default 25 wpm for the internal Curtis Mode B
keyer). The RIT side of the switch works just fine. I
don't know if this is the case of a bad switch itself, a
problem with the switch mounting being slightly off and not
throwing far enough in the one direction, or in a broken
connection somewhere in the radio. I recall this
happening intermittently when I first acquired the radio,
although It never bothered me because I was fine using the
keyer at 25 wpm (and using Farnsworth keying with a paddle
to get slower speeds) or in using an external keyer/paddle
(which was the case most of the time I used this
radio). [I had forgotten all about this problem until
just recently, when I was talking to someone else who was
interested in the radio, but who was also dead set on having
this part work.]
At this time I prefer to sell this as an entire package
only, so no separate pieces to be sold. I am at least
the third owner of this radio itself, which I've owned since
2000. I used the radio regularly from 2000 to 2007
(until it got set aside for an 556 Argo Scout that I had
then purchased and only used this radio occasionally since). The
radio has scuffs on the case, but no outright
scratches. I am a non-smoker. Some of the
modules came with the radio; others I added later. The
entire time I operated this 555 Scout, I have kept the power
turned down to approx. 5 watts, and so when you get it, you
will need to readjust the power level back up to 50 watts if
that is what you want to put out.
I request payment by bank cashier's check or postal money
order only.
The reason I am selling is that I now have a Ten-Tec
Argonaut VI as my main radio, with my Argo Scout now
becoming a back-up radio (with basic 80/40/20/15/10 meter
modules) and for occasional mobile use. As a committed
QRP operator, the 555 Scout is more radio than I need
compared to the 5-watt 556 Argo Scout or Argonaut VI.
Let me know if you are interested.
Cheers/73,
Kevin Anderson, K9IUA
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Kevin Anderson, Dubuque IA USA, K9IUA
k9iua (at) yahoo (dot) com
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