Use a ICOM transceiver for Shortwave listening ? Why not !

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For the second hand price in Euros (1 euro=0.90 US Dollars)

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Only for SWL ICOM receivers

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History of the famous ICOM shortwave receivers made in JAPAN

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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.