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

[Jan Robbins]

Hi Paul--

RIGPIX suggests it began 1976, which sounds about right to me (but what 
do I know; I started this discussion because I didn't know anything).

73!  Jan

Paul Gates, KD3JF wrote:

>When did the Icom 230 2 meter rig come out?
>
>D C *Mac* Macdonald <k2gkk at hotmail.com> wrote: 
>I am hardly an authority, but I believe the IC-701was the first HF rig they marketed in US, maybe
>around 1976 or so???
> 
>There was a six-channel crystal-controlled 2m
>IC-2F that was the first that I know of, but
>the company was not yet known as "Icom" at
>that time.  If I recall, it was simply Inoue, but
>may have had some other name on it, perhaps
>Varitronics???
> 
>My first Icom rigs were IC-20 and IC-21 in 1972.
> 
>Dang, that's 35 years ago.  Oldest Icom rigs I
>still have are the crystal-controlled IC-30 UHF
>mobile and the IC-215 2m draggie-talkie.
> 
> 
>73 - Mac, K2GKK/5
>Oklahoma City, OK
> 
> 
>  
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>>Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 08:49:38 -0500> From: swanman at cfu.net> 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> > ----> Your Moderator: Dick Flanagan K7VC: icom-owner at mailman.qth.net> Icom Users Net: Sundays, 1700Z, 14.316 MHz> Icom FAQ: http://www.qsl.net/icom/----
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