Top 10 Ham Radio Transceivers of the 70s 

K9BF here. First Licensed in 1969. I have examples of most of these radios in my basement, including a Signal One CX-7 with Nixie tubes. Yes, the TS-820 was a game changer. I put an FT-101 on my work bench and went to lunch. I got back home and found several fire trucks at my house. Several firemen were wondering around my basement looking for the source of all the smoke. I directed them over to the FT-101 whose power transformer was very hot. I had a FT-101ZD at one time, beautiful radio. I had some WWII surplus stuff in the beginning. I came home from school one day and found a big box on the kitchen table from Heathkit. My big brother had bought me an HW-100 kit. My first real ham radio. Enough from me. 73 Ben K9BF

Love the introductory sound track!....

Thanks. This video brings back a lot of memories 👍. I've had my ham license since '91 and just like many, i was pretty heavy into CB and shortwave radio. I built my first crystal receiver in the '70s with scavenged parts from a couple of discarded RCA radios, a homemade BFO and a homebuilt antenna tuner (100ft. of enameled wire coiled up, with five taps and two variable mica caps. Then I got the "FT-101EE😁. Now I'm using the icom ic-9100. What a massive change in electronics and communications overall. I've managed to collect a little bit of everything you can think of as I'm the curator of Ham helpers (a group of hams who collect old donated radios, fix them, (if possible) and get them back out to newly licensed ham operators for free). Keep recording, we'll keep enjoying your videos and sharing with you when we can 👍.

Oh I lusted after the GT-550 when I upgraded from Novice to General/Advanced...but my electronics shop teacher, Truman WB6QFV (SK) was a Drake aficionado and talked me into the TR-4 that my Dad George WN6IFX (SK) on a bartender's pay in '69 outfitted me with the TR-4/MS-4/RV-4/AC-4. I still use the AC-4/MS-4 with my Drake C-line today! TNX for the trip down memory lane Mike! 73 - Dino KLØS

What a trip in the past. It brings me the desire to buy a TS-520 again, my first HF transceiver in the early 80's! Thanks!

6:30 My first commecial radio. I had started with a homebrew 80 m transmitter and Geloso receiver, which I modified for 80-40 operation, AM, and in February 1980 bought a used Yaesu FTdx-401B (it's the same rig as the FTdx-560) with the pair of 6KD6's finals giving 560W PEP input. The transceiver was hybrid.

Back in the late 70's, a friend of mine had a 50' sailboat built for him in Hong Kong. He became a ham so he could have communications on the high seas as he elected to sail the Pacific back to the states. He chose the Atlas 210 radio because of its small size and solid state design. It worked perfectly and he used it for several years on his outings to the Gulf of Mexico and South America. Great product!

Excellent video! Thanks for the trip down memory lane. My Grandpa fot me started in ham radio with a VIking Adventurer transmitter. My first SSB station was a Heathkit HW-101. Thanks again for another great video. 73 de K7RMJ Frank

As a kid in the late 70s, my Dad had me going to ham classes and I was in spitting distance of writing my Novice, but I fell in with a bad crowd at school and started learning computer programming. Consequently, I wouldn't get licensed until my middle 50s, but I have my Grandfather's 1973 (?) Atlas 180 on my desk having revived it some months ago. It's great having that little piece of history in my shack. Thanks for this great video, Mike!

My First kit radio was a Heathkit HW-108. Thanks for the review. Dana VE6KBI.

K-Billy's SUPER sound of the 70's

Great vid, Mike-o! Soooo many neurons fired. Many of the radios I lusted after, and my HW-7 snuck in at the end. Good job!! 73 de W2SW.

Good One!!1 Didn't get my license until 1983 but got interested in vintage equipment 20 years ago. I have a FT-101, Triton, TR-7 and Tempo One. W6TOM

When I went from my DX-20 transmitter to an SB-101 I was so excited. An actual VFO instead of a few crystals and relays instead of a knife switch. Those were some great times.

My brother and I have both been licensed since 1974. We built an HW-16 and an HW-101 for our joint station - not because of their awesomeness, but simply because they were cheap. Had lots of fun with them tho. My next rig was the Kenwood TS-820s while my brother went to TenTec. Lots of memories from the 70s. Thanks

My first HF rig was a Kenwood TS-820S. Got that in 1997. Fantastic radio! 👍 73 De N1XV

My dad was a ham and I grew up with ham radio as a kid. In 1976 I got my novice license at the age 13. Over the years I have owned most of these radios or at least operated them. Christmas 78 I received a HW-101 my dad and I put it together. In 1980 I got a SB-101 and I took it to school and built it in my electronic class. You have to live boat anchors

FT-301 too! All solid state; all metal chassis, modular circuit construction...

Mike, Great job, as usual. I never heard of that, SommerKamp radio, very interesting. Im looking forward to the QRP rig installment as well. WA1YKL :)

The siltronix 1011 was really a swan with all the bands striped out but 10/11 and aimed at the 11 crowd. Much like many of the ten meter cb's they sell everywhere these days.They changed the brand name to distance themselves from their other product line, lol. Don't judge,....I bought one new as a teen ager still in high school. I really didn't know any better as everyone was doing such things in the mid 70's and no one was watching over me. I remember that the operating manual aimed you right to the mod without coming out and saying it - by telling you what exactly wouldn't work in the 11 meter band switch position, ( the transmit relay),. You could look right at it and see the big white wire was there in the 10 but not 11, hahaha. I looked at it and had it working in under five mins with a soldered jumper. As wrong as that was,.... I still chuckle at their deceitful cleverness? I heard hams on the ten meter band and that was it for me. I got to studying for my license and do it the right way. Interesting rig though. The 8950 compactron looked like it had a natural gas blue flame inside that danced as it was modulated. Cheers.

I loved my TS-520 1980's de NI7U licensed 61 years ago (1962) as WH6ELX (Hawai'i). 1st station as WH6ELX a kit I built with paper route $ a Knightkit T-50 with 3 novice band crystals and a Hallicrafters SX-110. In that 1st year got half way to WAS, and got my WAC all on 50W CW and 3 crystals mostly on 21168 and 7170! Used a 15m monoband Yagi and a 40m dipole. Passed my Extra Class code (20wpm) when I took my Novice exam but could not pass the theory yet. I think, the best days of Ham Radio!

VERY MUCH APPRECIATED. I HAVE MOST OF THESE TRANSCEIVERS YOU MENTIONED. ONE MY FAVOURITE TRANSCEIVER YOU DID NOT MENTION IS COLLINS KWM-2A. REGARDS, AP2KD

Great video.. my '70s rig was the ten tec.. BUT, it was the Century 21.😏.. I've never been a phone man.. in 65 years I have filled countless logs, but my total phone QSO count wouldn't fill half of an ARRL logbook.. in 1981 I got my first real storeboughten radio, a kenwood TS530S....a very good receiver.. by then I'd been a ham 23 years.. All these years and I never had a top of the line radio..since this is likely my last sunspot cycle/peak, I just went upscale with the yaesu ftdx10.. it was now or never.. not top, but still a VERY good radio.. That TS820 was also my vote for the best..

GREAT VIDEO!! Looking forward to future topics! Thanks!

This is a great vid, being a new ham in 1973, I rembr seeing all of those ads & had one of them, the Drake TR4-C!!!😃🇺🇸

I started in 1967, age 15 with an Eico 720 & BC-312 with some converters for 10 and 15 & modulator for AM as novice, then general. In 1969 I graduated to my elmers, Yaesu radio which I purchased off him. He was in the Merchant Marines and I then used the Yaesu series FT-1000 amp, FR-100B receiver and FL-100 transmitter USB/LSB/AM/CW. I really enjoyed that rig in transceiver position. No one ever talks about that very clean rig for some reason. Excellent video of the history of these transceivers I grew up with, from when I first started. Used many of them at any of the naval stations I frequented. I even used my nuclear subs periscope as a wave guide for my Motorola HT220 slim line with rubber duck..on 2 meter FM, fond memories.

During the 1970's I owned a Yaesu FT-7 (20 W) and a Yaesu FT-7B (50 W). I was able to make a mobile QSO from South Africa to a Ham going mobile somewhere in the USA. I was running 50 W with the FT-7B and he was doing 5 kW mobile. I used a Hustler 20 m antenna. I later owned a Kenwood TS-440 in the 80's.

in the early 70's I was so excited to get my first transceiver....a Swan 350. The sweep tube finals got so hot, it drifted, the vox was terrible plugged in the back, on cw the filters were nonexistent. Thankfully I sold it all when I became inactive. In the mid 80's I set up a station again and bought a Kenwood 530s. Proper transmitting tubes, 500 htz cw filter, digital tuning reout, It did not drift, I could not believe how wonderful that rig was!

The HW101, my first radio first radio after getting my license way back in 2021, good old days. 😂 Neat video, most of those radios are new too me as I'm a 70s model myself

The Kenwood TS-8xx series is the flagship series of Kenwood. The TS-5xx series is the standard everyday class transceivers. I owned a Ten-Tec 540. Brilliant radio.

Must be going through a nostalgia phase, as I just reacquired my teenage rigs (HW-101, Tempo One) and my Elmer's rig (Drake TR-7). Now I have to clean and adjust. Hope it's half as much fun as it was using them was back in the late '70s!

Thank you for this excellent video, you will certainly be featured on this Saturday's AWA (Southern Africa) net. I'm pretty sure we are going to get many opinions on the subject.

Excellent video!!! My first radio was a knight receiver and then a cb radio in 1970. My first ham radio in 1979 was the Kenwood 599D Twins. I bought a Globe King 500C with the Collins 75A-2 receiver and ran the twins and the WRL radio for a long time. 11 meters was part of the VFO on the Globe King and no modification was necessary. I'm guessing 11 meters was a ham band in the late 40's to early 50's. I'm still running the Kenwood Twins and the Globe King today, but they're not my primary radios. Greetings from W7UQ

My first radio after passing my novice was the 820-S. Love that rig sand moved up the various classes. Was very forgiving and a great experience. Helped build my base knowledge. NV6P

That's a Big Ten Four good buddy!

We had the use of a Halicrafters transceiver for the week long 1960s National Eistedfodd at Flint. However early tests with our aerials resulted in some low emission output valves.. No problem, just went to the nearest TV repair shop, and got 2 new 6HF5 line-output valves and we were back in business.

My first Ham radio was the Yaesu FT-101EE. I bought it new in 1978 and got my Novice ticket in 1980, at age 21. My first call was WL7AKW. The radio was a beast but I sure did love it and used it for many years. 73 Joe

WOW! What great channel content! Excellent job man. My first contact as a ham in 1993 was on CW in a radio club in Portland, CT. on a TS-520. I'll never forget flipping the large heavy duty mechanical switches to key the transmitter on 80 meters. I later on picked up a used set of 599 Kenwood Twins at my first hamfest for $300. The rigs had to be repaired and aligned as they also had bad filter caps. An elmer, "Mac" Harper W1FYM, (sk) helped me as I brought it to his basement to diagnose. As I started to reach inside he yelled "what are you doing?!!!!" pointing out the fact that there was 800 volts in there! It so happened that I met a guy Joe, AA1GW on 2 meters who had the same radios who also gave me pointers as well. He was big into working the Russian 10/15 meter satellites and lived in a condo were he could only have dipoles in the attic. He called the satellites "artificial propagation". The sunspots were at the lowest in 1993 so the HTX-100 that I bought on clearance I was able to take back to Radio Shack and I traded it for an HTX 202 two meter handheld having never made a single contact on the 10 meter rig. I was told to by Joe, AA1GW to never get rid on the 599 twins or i'd regret it, and he was right! I miss those! I traded the twins with a private school in South Carolina's amateur radio club for a Johnson Invader 2000 and Heatkit SB300 receiver, both which I still own so the "loss" was bitter sweet. I Now live in Western Maine and have been working on my station since the lock down and I really enjoy the fact that we're the closest place in the country to Eurpope and Africa/ middle east so not only does it make contacts easier with that part of the world, most of the US stations have their beams on a north east heading a large majority of the time so it makes contacts with US stations easier as well.

Absolutely beautiful sets! and great information! Love learning more about these sets, most of which I could never afford back when they came out. Thanks for your educational videos!

I miss my Kenwood 520-S that I bought used in about 1996. It was a lot of radio for the money. Neutralizing the finals used to scare me. All that high voltage!

This made me 😄. Thanks Mike! GREAT JOB.

Thanks for the memories :). I started in 1977 with a hand-me-down Heathkit DX-40 and an Elmac PMR-7 receiver. They were quite old even then but loads of contacts and fun on CW. My first "real" transceiver after upgrading to General was a Kenwood TS-511s and then another upgrade to a Kenwood TS-520s. Kept the TS-520s for several years. Great times, thanks again.

My first rig was the FT-101E (with the optional fan for its PA), I bought used when us techs were going to get 10 meter phone privileges. And yes i had to track down a 10A xtal to replace the 11m one it came with (from a ham store who swore it only had 10m xtals in it). I later traded it to a CB'r who bought a FT-101ZD not realizing it didn't have AM (he later got his ham ticket). Loved both radios! They inspired me to upgrade to Extra. Thanks for the video flashback! - mike

I started with a National 200 Transceiver. Great memories on CW with a J38 straight key

Wow! Mike really went out on this one, and I dropped right into the zone. Excellent research and production work, loved the music too. 👍

Great job Mike.

Brilliant video. Amazing to see the variety of rigs that were sold on the US market compared to the UK in that era. Still a few KW-2000Bs still on the air here. I have a KW-202 RX which is really the receive section of a KW-2000B that I should restore and get back in use to warm the shack up.

Excellent, thank you!

Extremely interesting video. My wife and me share to operate the TS520 and actively operate it on CW and for 40 years it is still working today on the receiving part. Tubes had to be replaced. For 40 years never breakdown at all.

I have 2 of the units of your video: An FPM300 Safari, which I bought brand new in 1974. It has tubes, transistors and some ICs, a total Hybrid rig. And an Atlas 210X with an optional digital display, from 1978. I enjoy "no-menus" old school operation. Great video!

I routinely swapped the usual 6146B output valves for the Mil spec CV3523 and upped the HV rail to 800v to get an honest 200W PEP. Worked just fine.

My first transceiver was a Henry Radio/Uniden Tempo 2020. Hybrid design, with a partial PLL circuit, and a 100KHz VFO. Best radio I have ever owned. Still own and use it on 75M. (Gears are broken, so band switching is no longer possible)

Love the music at the beginning of this video

Wow I had Swan 350, Drake 4, Yaesu 101, TenTec Triton II and Tentec Argosy II, good old days(?) Ham Radio friends(?) always talked me into selling radios after I did Hamfest leg work and clean up : ( Anyway I was always looking, now I can't do without Spectrum Scope Radio ; ) Thank You, even digging the music : ) Still have TenTec Triton II, Argosy II and ICOM IC-751 with PIEXX RAM Board ; )

Very engaging. Thanks. Just added a Swan 700 to my collection. Waiting for bench time.

Really loved this video and the last one too. I too was licensed in the 70s and have those rigs. I hope you make a later one of the 80s to 90s That would be awesome thanks wb7qxu

Wow did this bring back a lot of memories. I got my novice ticket while in high school back in 72’ and a buddy of mine and I ran out as soon as the Tempo One came out and we bought brand new ones. They worked ok for what we needed, since we couldn’t afford say Collins gear at the time. Quality control on those radios wasn’t the best, and I had to do some simple repairs to keep it going. Watching this video just reminded me of how many offerings there were back in those days from the different companies producing radios.

There's certainly a lot of beautiful radios in that line-up, Mike. Just in aesthetics alone, I probably would've chosen six or seven, "Number 1's." However, being a child in the 1970's, I was still playing around with walkie talkies. Nice video. Thoroughly enjoyed it.

I was just about to ask what happened to a mention of my old faithful... the Kenwood TS530 when I realised it was released at the beginning of the '80s! I bow to your superior knowledge and loved the walk through history combined with the "why it worked out this way" answers. Great and entertaining work, love the historic music and pics too. Thanks, Mike.👍

FT101E..my first radio..Still alive

Great video, thanks Mike👍.

Great video i enjoyed it love the old rigs📻

Nice report and I agree with most of it. I owned several of the rigs depicted and the only one I was the least happy with was the SB104, that I put the 104A upgrade kit in that did not solve its primary issue - turn on the noise blanker and bring in every signal on the band at once, even if you dropped then nominal gain from 1:1 to less than 1. Something a lot of new hams need to wake up to though, is everyone of the depicted rigs is still on the air somewhere, I own and still use a few listed. When you get on your $6K buck radio and tell me I am 50 cycles off freq, maybe you need to watch this video again.

Great fun, in VK the FT200, FT101 and TS520/820 were locally imported in numbers and sold like hot cakes. QRP rigs next please🤓👍 and don't forget the homebrew and kit classics like NORCAL Sierra, Rockmite, Wilderness SST, KD1JV rigs and of course the classic Heathkits.

Fantastic Mike!

Those are some lovely rigs and I've owned an Ten Tec Argonaut 509, an Atlas 210X and a Kenwood TS520 (and friends owned FT200 and FT101) but I can't believe you missed the Yaesu FT-7. They were one of the best selling radios of the 70s and redfined what mobile radio was (and I say that as a long time owner of two of their direct competitors). I've owned three FT-7 radios (still have one) but my other mobile HF radios from the 70s are gone (noting that the FT-7/FT-7B are not QRP radios unlike my Argonaut although they are lower power than most).

Super neat video. I’m a late-blooming ham (last of the code General license) so I was totally non-ham in the 70s. But I have a Drake 4 Twin set (nearly free since someone was literally going to throw out the like-new receiver) and an HW-101 I bought from a local club (probably cause the the new kids couldn’t get along with tuning up a tube final). And your video showed me a few I’ve never heard of. Thanks!

The KW2000 was pretty good and worth a mention

Over the years I have owned most of those radios

Really enjoyed your video. I was first licensed in the 70s. My first rig was a Century 21. I went on to get a Commercial Radio Telephone ticket and a second class telegraph with ship radar. It should be obvious that I sent some time at sea as a sparks. WE HAD A Drake in the shack for ham use. Drake had an IMO approved receiver based on the TR7 the R8. The R8 was a lot better than some of the old receivers you often find at sea. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

Hi Mike, I'm proud that all 3 of my radios made it into your top 10 list😊 I love the analogue ones from the 70s. The only sad thing is that I still don't own a Swan MX100 😢 73 de Bernd

Awesome Video on 70's Ham Radios. I also found my way to Ham Radio via Cb Radio and a modified Yaesu 73 from UK

The early TS520 ran off 12v too, via a built in inverter. It was my first mobile HF Rig. Kids don't know how good they have it these days. GM4SVM

i have the ftdx 400 & 401, the ts 820&520,the ft 101 2nd gen all is suprerb and great to use built like a tank and very nice to look at. ill keep them for sure. ❤

In your honorable mentions, you showed a radio that I don't ever recall hearing a, and I was a Hallicrafters fan boy, playing around with radios, since about 1969, and first licensed in 1980. FPM300 styling quite surprised me. It sort of looks like the lovechild of a Drake and a Yaesu.

Love these videos. First licensed in '63. I repair the old radios as a hobby. About 13 years ago I acquired fifteen Galaxy radios for $15, all in great cosmetic shape. The power supplies were another $15. All from a deceased radio tech. So one of each model went on the bench. They were easy to work on, half the time it was just the regulator transistor, and some were tougher but now I have one of each working. They are a really under rated radios as they hold their own quite well with the other radios of the era. AND THEY KEEP ON WORKING, YYEESSS. I like that a lot. I think some of the bad vibes they got was because the Gal 3 through the Gal 5 series were so ugly. Don't overlook the 2000 series amplifiers.. I ran one for 26 years on 20 meters, after which a mod failed and ate all the tubes. I wasn't aware of the mod as nothing ever went wrong with it except to clean the relay twice. 1350, watts. according to Leo, on $300 worth of tubes. When I got it I had to see what it would do full tilt. 850 volts at 3+ amps. Do the math. It buried the 3 amp ampmeter. Only did that for about one second. Thank you for rating the Galaxies so high and thank You for the videos, they are loads of fun for an old radio nut. 73 de wb0snf

Please do the same video with transceivers of the 80´s, greetings!

Back in Jr High in the early 90s, I painted barns all one summer to afford a TS-520 ($300). I think my dad got the better end of that deal, lol. I still have that TS-520, but I don't use it much anymore. But I love the Kenwood/Trio hybrid rigs. When I got back into radio, I bought two sets of 599 twins and swapped bits around to make one really nice set and one pretty ratty one, and kept the nice one. Then I fixed up a TS-830 later on. The 599s are great for fun (and for 11m and AM in general), and the 830 is great when one needs a little more refined RX.

I had an FT-301 which was all transistor from the 70s.

Not sure these products were better than the Collins KWM2, which is was from 1959 and tubes, but the Yaesu was at least imitating them slightly. Hard to beat the ergonomics of the Collins equipment. The anti-backlash dial with the detent for the index finger, the availability of a crystal oven, so many great features of the Collins. Their 75S-3C receiver was the high water mark for American radio electronics.

Thanks for the awesome video, and the trip down memory lane Correction SB104 no t HW104

Brilliant video, as always! I lean towards simpler radios as I've been a service technician for 40 years, and I much prefer working on these units. I also believe that I trust the simpler circuits to hold up in the long-term. Your comment about 100 transistors to replace 10 tubes hits it on the head. While the transistors are definitely more reliable, finding the bad 1-in-a-100 can be a real headache, not to mention that each of those transistors has associated passive components that could go bad as well. Add to this just physically getting to the parts in these densely packed chassis. Lastly, most tubes are easier to get than unobtainable, exotic solid-state components Having said all this, I own and use many radios, but favorites of mine are both the atlas 210 (a victim of the difficult-to -get solid-state component syndrome, I fear!) and the Heathkit HW-101. The Heathkit would be my only radio if forced down to one rig! While it lacks many bells and whistles, it's good enough to get the job done. It hears well, and always gets good signal reports. I'm afraid I'm a bit of a Luddite, and a cheap guy, like your Elmer! 73, Russ

Great video. I got my ticket in 1972 and would drool over the rigs shown in 73 or QST. I saw my first TS-520 at a Field Day I participated in around 1974. That was the rig I wanted. However, I saw the FT-101 advertised and decided on it instead. I'm glad I did. So in 1977, I took out a loan and bought the FT-101ee. I still own it and it's still on the air. BTW, that first photo of you with a beard...I'm trying to figure out the background. My first impression is you're sailing or at a marina. Not sure. Anyway, thanks for the memories. 73 WA4CHQ

This really retweaked my interest, and ironicly have spoken to several old-time bush rat prospectors who have again started using Radio for evening Scheds. if I remember right 4441 or? ( old timers disease sucks!) I have no idea where my radios went years ago. I've never touched a 2way or HF since 91 when we went to sat, except our BC Radio tel in our trucks .. The base units we had were Traeger or Kenwood in our bush camps .. another unit for CNCP communication. Truly miss my brother (ex Sigs), we had always planned a radio shack ... If anyone can remember those models that were all too common in the Bush BC and Yukon I'd be grateful ..

I have The Kenwood 520SE with tuner and ext VFO that needs a little TLC but runs good as is. I am hoping to make it a deicated CW rig.

My first radio was the Yaesu FT-101... I bought used in 1980.. an amazing radio. I have only ever owned a Yaesu.. but I liked my 101 better, as opposed to my current setup.. the FT-450D

My first radio was the FT-101B.. Sitll have it after 40 some years.

I lost my HF Radio Virginity with a brand new Henry Radio Tempo 2020 ! This rig was made my Uniden in Japan. Very interesting rig....... I sorta wished i had gotten a TS-520, but it was in the same class as that rig. 73 Jerry AB8B

Great retro-video Mike. I have a TR-4Cw, Swan-500 and Swan-260 in my collection for this era. The TR-4Cw is pretty mint and low miles. The Swan-500 came from the college radio club and it is pretty well worn and technician'd out!. The Swan-260 is just weird and cries out for mods but has a winning rectangular magic eye'ish tube; but unfortunately has a flat 6LQ6! Hope you do the 80's!!! 73...

I am quite comfortable with my ncx3 still . thx and 73

I’m thinking about getting my first radio for HAM, though I’d like one that’s vintage. What would you recommend for a beginner who is in the process of studying to be licensed?

Video is great, and what is this music in the beginning? (band) cheers

Michael, what was your source for the two pictures of the Yaesu FT-101 assembly lines? Tnx.

Born in 80's but just dug out FT101EE out of storage after watching.

Tempo One, Made by several makers, Henry for one, I believe I paid around $550 . Another buyer had ordered it and bailed, He had 11 meter crystal s, CB was a mess. I stayed on the ham bands. I TRADED FOR A SET OF KENWOOD TWINS 599 T AND D. I wanted 6 meters. All good radios.

Great video! Any chance we could get the intro/theme music and the artists? Obliged!

Where’s the censorship on this video?!😮 Especially when the twins were brought out!! Great video Sir!

my first hf was the Yeasu FT-201 I think it came on the market a few years after the FT-101 first generation

To my ear, the Kenwoods sounded best of all the rigs I was exposed to during the 70’s.

The FT101E certainly is worth a place as No1 but the original non suffix, non 160m band radio needs a lot of help. the 820S is another good contender, best looker must be the Atlas 350XL.