I would add the IC-701 to that list. Icom's first HF transceiver, it
was similar in size and looks to its VHF base tranceiver the IC-211
and there was nothing else quite like it at the time.
There was a US-made radio, Atlas I think its name was, which was quite
small and had a ring mixer front end
And the S-Line became the benchmark for all hams to aspire to own... I
finally owned 3 sets for a few months and kept a 75-S3B, and two KWM-2A.
Today, I was caressing them, but only with appropriate intimacy as they
deserve.
Milestones for HF ham rigs (from 1957 onward):
NC-300
anything Vikin
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