[ICOM] Query: 1st Icom HF Transceivers ????

[ve4xt at mts.net]

It appears the first Icom HF transceiver wasn't a transceiver at all:

in 1967 or 69 (references vary), Inoue produced the IC-700t and IC-700r 
transmitter receiver pair. The transmitter was a hybrid using 4 tubes and 
15 transistors.

The units had a look that predated but seemed to inspire, the look of the 
IC-21 2m transceiver, which was cube-like in shape.

It looks like the other correspondents are correct: the IC-701, circa 1976, 
was the first transceiver exported to the U.S.

According to rigpix.com, the first-ever Icom transceiver was the FDAM-1, a 
1-watt, AM, 6-meter transceiver.

Interestingly, even the excellent rigpix museum has no reference to the 
IC-700t and IC-700r.

73, kelly
ve4xt




> From: Jan Robbins <swanman at cfu.net>
> Date: 2007/10/18 Thu AM 08:49:38 CDT
> To: icom at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [ICOM] Query: 1st Icom HF Transceivers ????
> 
> A collector friend sent me an email with the following interesting Icom 
> queries.  I couldn't answer them. 
> 
> 1)   What was Icom's first amateur radio HF transceiver?  When was it 
> introduced?
> 
> 2)   What was the first Icom transceiver sold on the US market?  When 
> was it introduced in the US?
> 
> 
> Can anyone help? Any info greatly appreciated.
> vy 73 to all, as always!!
> 
> Jan N0JR
> 
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