[TenTec] FS: TT Scout (Model 555, NB) w/7 modules, mic, mobile mount, etc

[Kevin Anderson]

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 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 alter. 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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