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

[D C *Mac* Macdonald]

I don't know what's going on with this 'new' version 
of HoTMaiL, but funny things are happening to stuff 
I send.  Apparently carriage returns are being ignored. 
Perhaps the following will make my earlier message 
a bit more readable. 

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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  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
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