I'm trying to identify this Icom portable radio. Unfortunately, the picture is in a quite a bad shape.
Does someone know the model number?
Thank you!
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$\begingroup$ The Icom America Headquarters Office is five minutes from my house -- actually, probably 3 minutes. They have a display, sort of like a museum of old rigs, in their main lobby and I know they have old radios going back 30 years plus. They may have something that looks like this. Unfortunately, this is Sunday and tomorrow I am away for most of the day. But, I will try and get over there and look if someone else does not answer first. Their location: Kirkland, Washington. $\endgroup$ – K7PEH Mar 28 '16 at 0:43
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$\begingroup$ It could be an ancestor of the IC-V80 line of HTs. $\endgroup$ – K7PEH Mar 28 '16 at 0:45
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$\begingroup$ It looks similar to an IC-V8. $\endgroup$ – rclocher3 Mar 28 '16 at 16:37
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2$\begingroup$ The 4 buttons (P1-P4) make me think it's a land mobile radio. It could be the Icom F1000 or F3230 except the antenna's on the wrong side. $\endgroup$ – user3486184 Mar 28 '16 at 20:22
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$\begingroup$ The Icom IC-F3 (amateur radio) HT also has P1 - P4 buttons as shown in the OP's post but it also has two up/down buttons just to the left of the screen. And, the OP's image post shows some shadowy buttons to the left of the screen on careful inspection. $\endgroup$ – K7PEH Mar 29 '16 at 23:32
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I went to the Icom America Headquarters office in Kirkland to look over the wall of history of a sampling of their amateur radio gear. This model shown below in the photo is the closest in appearance to the photo posted by the OP. It is an Icom IC-F3, first released in 1997.
The OP's image of the HT appears to be a derivative of the IC-F3 called the IC-F3GS. Here is an image of the IC-F3GS. It seems to have the right body shape as the OP's photo as well as the up/down arrow design. Even though the up/down arrow buttons to the left of the screen are hard to make out, if you zoom in the OP's image you will be able to see the buttons.
