ICOM started in 1954 by Tokuzo Inoue in Osaka, Japan. Icom Inc.’s roots are in designing, engineering, and manufacturing highly advanced, compact solid-state radio equipment for use in the amateur (ham) radio industry.
https://www.icom.co.jp/corporate/history/
https://www.icomeurope.com/en/about-us/
Born in Kyoto in 1931 , Mr. Inoue became interested in amateur radio as a teenager in the 1940s . After amateur radio operations were again allowed in Japan in 1952, he was licensed as a JA3FA. In 1954, at the age of 23, he started a medical equipment business, Inoue Seisakusyo. In 1964 he founded INOUE Electric Manufacturing Co., Ltd. It was there that he built and sold his first commercial amateur radio, the all-transistor FDAM-1, a 1 watt, 6 meter mobile transceiver. More than 200 units of this early kit have been sold, followed by 3,000 units of an updated version. In 1978 the company name was changed to ICOM Incorporated (short for Inoue Communications). Mr. Inoue's business philosophy, from the very beginning of his company, has always been "technology first, money will follow." It was He was greatly influenced in this meeting by the late Arthur Collins (Collins of Radio), who gave him this advice: . "No matter what, keep perfecting your technology. If you perfect your technology and make good products, you'll always get business. Forget the unnecessary stuff and strive to exist because of your technology." Although Japan now has more than 1, 35 million radio operators out of a total population of 126 million), more than any other country in the world, this number is down from a previous high of 2 million. Mr. Inoue attributes much of the defeat to youth use of cell phones and the Internet. He believes that the challenge for ham radio will be to convince young people that Ham radio offers a unique set of intellectual and scientific challenges not available from commercial forms of communication.
1967
Amateur Band Communications Receiver
Single Conversion Superheterodyne. Solid State.
Ranges: 3.5-4, 7-7.5, 14-14.5, 21 -21 .5, 28-28.5, 28.5-29, 29-29.5 and 10-10.5 MHz.
Requires a speaker. This was lnoue's first receiver. The IC-700R matches the IC700T transmitter
1981 to 1984
ICR-71
Variants: Model R-71 E is the European version (R-71 Dis the German version).
1984 to 1996
1990 to 1997
ICOM IC-R72
The R-72 never gained wide popularity in the North American market. Some
reviewers felt that the supplied ba,ndwidths were inappropriate for DX'ing. Triple
conversion in optional NB-FM mode. The Australian version covers 250 - 29900 kHz.
The German version covers 150 - 26100 kHz.
ICOM IC-R100
1990-1998
Designed primarily for mobile use. "Specifications guaranteed from .5-
1800 MHz. Tuning steps: 1, 5, 8, 9, 10, 12.5, 20 or 25 kHz. Memories store:
frequency, mode, step, and preamp/attenuator settings. Nine different scanning
modes are supported. The French version covers .1-87.5 and 108.5-1856 MHz.
Units manufactured for America after April 1995 lack coverage from 800 to 900 MHz.
This was to comply with the Federal law prohibitting the reception of cellular
frequencies. The American blocked versions are referred to as model R-100-11 . The
unblocked, or government version is referred to asR-100-03. This receiver is popular
for tuning satellite transponders due to its wide spectrum coverage. There are three
antenna inputs: .5-50 (S0239). 50-905 (N) and 905-1 800 (N) MHz.
1996-2004
Variants: In the U.S.A., model R-8500-02 has the cellular frequencies of 824-849
and 869-894 MHz blocked. Model R-8500-03 is an unblocked government version
2017 to 202?
1999
Sold
primarily to the military and govt. markets. Sale to American hobbyist prohibited after
1995 because of cellular coverage. Versions for France , Germany and Australia
have different coverage. A fabulous wideband receiver that is excellent on H.F.
2007 to 20??
1999 to 20??
Remember all ICOM are MADE IN JAPAN
Second hand prices in Euros in France
Tokuzo Inoue, the chairman of our company, first encountered radio when he was in junior high school, going to and from a radio store in Yamatokoriyama City, Nara Prefecture.
There, he learned about the fun of wireless communication and deepened his interest.
Looking back on that time, Inoue said, "It was a fateful encounter that made wireless communication my life's work."
After graduating from high school, he started a consumer electronics retail store in his family home, but he soon found a job at a medical device manufacturer.
Inoue's technical skills were highly evaluated here, and he was entrusted with the development of medical equipment using high frequencies, but he spent two hours commuting from his home in Yamashiro-cho. In 1954, he built a small building in the garden of his home and started business as Inoue Electric Manufacturing.
That was the beginning of Icom.
Inoue Electric Mfg. Co., Ltd. started with subcontracting and amateur radio equipment manufacturing as its business. As an amateur radio manufacturer, it was a latecomer, and in order to bring out novelty, it developed the all-transistor radio FDAM-1 instead of the vacuum tubes that were the mainstream at the time, leading the transition from vacuum tubes to transistors. bottom.
Since then, new technologies have been developed one after another. In particular, the development of analog PLL circuits marked the end of the era of crystal-switching radios. In addition, we developed the radio IC-701 equipped with a digital PLL synthesizer. When Inoue visited Mr. Arthur Collins, a world-famous wireless communication engineer with this device, and presented him with the IC-701, Mr. Collins, who saw the actual device, said, "Mr. Inoue, do what I wanted to do." ” and praised. Mr. Collins said that a company would grow as long as it continued to develop technology.
The company continued to increase capital for capital investment, and expanded its product range from amateur radios to commercial radios and marine radios. In the field of amateur radio equipment, in 1980, the portable VHF transceiver IC-2N was released.
Compact, high-performance, and easy to operate by directly driving the PLL IC via a thumbwheel switch to set the frequency, this series sold 2 million units worldwide, establishing Icom's position in the radio equipment industry. contributed to
Around this time, the company name was also changed from Inoue Electric Works to Icom Co., Ltd., aiming for a further leap forward.
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