[ICOM] Query: 1st Icom HF Transceivers ???? -- Thank You Thank YOU!!

Thu Oct 18 13:48:42 EDT 2007

"relative to downloading" the review.
Pete, wa2cwa

On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:34:24 -0500 D C *Mac* Macdonald
<k2gkk at hotmail.com> writes:
> 
> National NCL-2000 Linear Amp review in Feb 65 issue!!! 
>  
> 73 - Mac, K2GKK/5 
> Oklahoma City, OK
> 
> 
> 
> > To: icom at mailman.qth.net
> > Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:16:36 -0400
> > Subject: Re: [ICOM] Query: 1st Icom HF Transceivers ???? -- Thank 
> You Thank YOU!!
> > From: manualman at juno.com
> >
> > Remember, the ARRL Product Review list on the web starts at 1980.
> > Icom IC-701, QST, April 1979, page 39 - product review
> >
> > Pete, wa2cwa
> >
> > On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:40:50 -0500 Jan Robbins  writes:
> >> You guys are great!!! I didn't need another reason to think this 
> was
> >>
> >> the best reflector in ham radio, but you sure gave me one.
> >>
> >> Putting it all together, it would seem that--
> >>
> >> FIRST ICOM HF RIG was probably the IC-700R/IC-700T twins. They
> >> were
> >> produced circa 1967 or 1969, so would have been "Inoues," rather
> >> than
> >> Icoms, and apparently were not marketed in US. (These rigs, one
> >> would
> >> bet, were coincident with either or both the Kenwood 
> Twins--599--and
> >> the
> >> Yaesu FR/FT-50. I can't find a firm date when the Kenwood Twins
> >> were
> >> manufactured, but the Yaesu Twins appear to date to1966.)
> >>
> >> FIRST ICOM HF RIG IN US was the 701, manufactured and introduced
> >> here
> >> circa 1978-1979.
> >>
> >> FIRST ICOM HF RIG REVIEWED IN QST appears to have been the 720A, 
> in
> >>
> >> 1982. At least ARRL website shows nothing earlier.
> >>
> >> And I guess it appears Inoue/Icom entered the American market 
> first
> >> via
> >> crystal-controlled VHF/UHF rigs, probably late '60's or very 
> early
> >> '70's. Early rigs were the 2F (date?), and 20 and 21 (1972?).
> >> First
> >> one reviewed in QST was the 25A in 1982, if ARRL website is
> >> complete.
> >>
> >> Pse let me know if other interesting info re very early 
> Inoue/Icom
> >> turns
> >> up, and once again tks to ALL!!!!
> >>
> >> 73 Jan
> >>
> >>
> >> Gary P. Fiber wrote:
> >>
> >>> I think your right Mac. However Icom did make a set of HF "
> >> twins"
> >>> The transmitter was tube and the receiver was solid state. I
> >> forget
> >>> the model number I do not think they were ever imported into 
> the
> >> US
> >>> though. At one time Icom America had a set of them in the " 
> bones"
> >>
> >>> area I suspect they are long gone though.
> >>>
> >>> According to Icom's published history on the www.icom.co.jp
> >> "Tokuzo
> >>> Inoue founded Inoue Seisakusyo in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan in 
> 1954
> >> then
> >>> in 1964 he founded Inoue Communications. In 1978 the name 
> changed
> >> to
> >>> Icom Inc. I always heard Mr Inoue worked for another company 
> during
> >>
> >>> the early years and had something to do with discovering 
> microwave
> >>
> >>> ovens and from the elders at Icom America when I worked there.
> >>>
> >>> Its amazing to see rigs that were introduced since July 1989 
> and
> >> have
> >>> gone out of production for replacement rigs. The original 
> IC-706
> >> has
> >>> to be 10 years old, the 735 look at the life of that rig just
> >> amazing
> >>> to me. I suspect I " supported" almost 1000 products while I 
> was
> >>> there. It was different then as I did it all from Amateur to
> >> Marine
> >>> Radar, Now the technical area is split up into divisions. I 
> think
> >>
> >>> Amateur is hardest to support as there are so many features on 
> the
> >>
> >>> rigs. Land Mobile is likely 2nd in support with all of the
> >> trunking
> >>> and selective calling going on today. But one can't take away 
> from
> >>
> >>> Marine with GMDSS and Radar.
> >>>
> >>> Gary K8IZ
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> D C *Mac* Macdonald 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
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