What makes a SONY as SONY
One of the most popular rigs among current CBers.
The design does not make us believe it was produced and used more than twenty years ago.
Most compact “portable” type rig with reputations for its excellent receiving performance.
One of a few models that have PTT microphone.
Accommodate an external mic with PTT capability.
Only one thing regrettable is its antenna length- 145CM.
Produced: 1984- early 90s

Handy but one of the best performance:
One of the most popular “handy” type rigs.
Actually it has an excellent performance to be my favorite rig.
Its rod antenna is 197CM, almost limit to the regulation.
Many of this design have been produced as a series of models, including ICB-870T and ICB-880T.
Also same design of models with much shorter helical antennas were produced, such as ICB-88H, ICB-87H.
Production of ICB-87R was discontinued around March- April timeframe in 2005.
One thing to be noted is that, although the looks are the same, there are what we call an “earlier model” and a “later model” in 87R. Many of the CBers reported earlier model has an excellent performance, while the later one does not. I share this evaluation. Generally, you can tell earlier model from later one by their protection covers: the earlier has a gray plastic cover and the later has a black skin-like cover.