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

[Dave Edwards]

It was the "in" rig when I was licensed....so my guess is around 1975...I 
know I'm close, but could be a bit off
...Dave
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From: "Paul Gates, KD3JF" <pearly732003 at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 12:34 PM
Subject: RE: [ICOM] Query: 1st Icom HF Transceivers ????


> 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
>
>
>> 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 
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