JB wrote:

I am a fancier of the TS-830S transceiver and am searching for some
historical facts..Anyone know how many were produced,Or,first and last
serial numbers..I think they were first produced in August ,1980 and
last advertised about July of 82 looks like about Two years of
production ..Thanks Harold W4PQW

Has to be longer than that, I pruchase the TS-530S (the TS-830S was
readily
avaialble) in the fall of 1983.

w9gb

Got curious myself since I liked mine so much. Found this web page from
SK that says "introduced in 1977"
http://w4ti.net/ts-830.html

On the TS-520_820_530_830 Yahoo Group a Kenwood tech was quoted "about
1979 - 1981". I thought I had a Ham Radio magazine from 1983 with the
Gold
model but I can't find it now. Others swear it was available as late as
1987. Please share on any info.

The TS-820S (and TS-520) came out in 1978. I got one soon after I got my ham
ticket. The TS-830 added the new WARC bands we didn't have in the
TS-820/TS-520 and 1981 sounds about right.

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