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

[D C *Mac* Macdonald]

I did some checking at ARRL's website and found QST product reviews as follows: Nov 69 Inoue Communications FDFM-2 2m xcvr Jan 71 Varitronics-Inoue IC-2F 2m xcvr Feb 71 Varitronics-Inoue AS2G antenna (2m ground plane???) Apr 79 Icom IC-701 HF xcvr 
 
Those of you who have QST archives (or on CD-ROM) 
can look these up.  I lost mine in a tornado in 1999. 
 
73 - Mac, K2GKK/5 
Oklahoma City, OK 
 
 
> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:34:18 -0700> From: pearly732003 at yahoo.com> Subject: RE: [ICOM] Query: 1st Icom HF Transceivers ????> To: icom at mailman.qth.net>> 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-701 
was 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