OUR PRODUCT MANUFACTURERS — YAESU

Sako Hasegawa, JA1MP, established Yaesu Musen Company during 1959 in the Tokyo city suburb of Yaesu.  The Yaesu Musen company was predated by his earlier company, started in 1956 and called  the General Television Co Ltd . Hasegawa-san's first SSB Equipment was manufactured under the General Television Co Ltd name in 1957.  The ethos of this company and then Yaesu Musem was to design and manufacture modern HF single sideband equipment  for the amateur radio market.  The Yaesu Musen Company's first product was a crystal controlled mono-band 40 metre transmitter, designated the FL-10/40.  This was swiftly followed by a 5 band crystal controlled...