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

[Jan Robbins]

That fills in some of the blanks. Tks Mac and Pete!  Jan

D C *Mac* Macdonald wrote:

>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 
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>Those of you who have QST archives (or on CD-ROM) 
>can look these up.  I lost mine in a tornado in 1999. 
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>73 - Mac, K2GKK/5 
>Oklahoma City, OK 
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>>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?
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>D C *Mac* Macdonald <k2gkk at hotmail.com> wrote: 
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>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??? 
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>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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