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

[D C *Mac* Macdonald]

I don't think they are downloadable, Pete. 
I imagine you have to have either the original 
QST magazines or one of the CD-ROM compilations.
 
Mac, K2GKK/5 
 
 
> To: icom at mailman.qth.net> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:48:42 -0400> Subject: Re: [ICOM] Query: 1st Icom HF Transceivers ???? -- Thank You Thank YOU!!> From: manualman at juno.com> > "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> > > ----> > > Your Moderator: Dick Flanagan K7VC: icom-owner at mailman.qth.net> > > Icom Users Net: Sundays, 1700Z, 14.316 MHz> > > Icom FAQ: http://www.qsl.net/icom/> > ----> > Your Moderator: Dick Flanagan K7VC: icom-owner at mailman.qth.net> > Icom Users Net: Sundays, 1700Z, 14.316 MHz> > Icom FAQ: http://www.qsl.net/icom/> > > > > ----> Your Moderator: Dick Flanagan K7VC: icom-owner at mailman.qth.net> Icom Users Net: Sundays, 1700Z, 14.316 MHz> Icom FAQ: http://www.qsl.net/icom/