Looking for a certain ham radio...

Your best bet is to keep an eye on the used market for an IC-706 or FT-100. A quick check on the 'bay shows them going in the 500-600 range.

 

Yeasu t 857 from does 2 m 10 m and 20m it runs in the 900 dollar range but everything in one and if you get the atas 120 you wont need any other equipment the 857 has a built in tuner and atas 120 is a screwdriver setup which works with the radio to auto tune what ever freq you want. And it will do all those bands you want from one antenna and rig.

 

That's a bit of an odd-ball channel lineup.... but my own shack looks like something from the original Frankenstein movie, too. Do you want all modes on all three bands? If so, then one of the previous suggestions is going to be the most practical suggestion. If you're only looking for FM on 2M, and SSB on 10 & 20 (and have the dash space), 3 separate rigs might serve you best. Besides, unless you want to either keep adjusting your HF antenna, with either a motor-driven screwdriver or taps on an Outbacker (or Hustler RM series resonators like on my minivan), you'll want three separate antennas.
Unless you're in area where ham repeaters are using "new" narrowband (+/- 2.5 KHz dev), an old standby like an Icom IC-2100 can be had for around $100. For 10M multimode, I've got an Emperor TS-5010 (except it doesn't do offsets for 10M repeaters). If you can find a Ten-Tec Scout with the 20M plugin, there's your 20M rig. Especially if you can also find the 10M plugin.....
Or do what I did for a long time for 20M SSB: http://heathkit-museum.com/ham/hvmhw-12-22-32.shtml (the -32 is what you'd want)
One drawback is that it needs an outboard power supply for either mobile or 117 VAC operation. The upside of that is that you can use the heat from all those tubes to supplement whatever your engine's stock heater supplies.

Otherwise, one of the newer 80M-to-70cm rigs, with a screwdriver antenna for HF and a dual-band whip for 2M/440 might be your best bet; I'm partial to Icom, having been an authorized warranty station for them for years.

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true but then he'd have multiply rigs,wires and antennas. I use the electronics principle KISS (Keep it simple stupid) besides what if wants to go to other bands then he has the all in one to do what he wants. The other way he'll keyhole himself into a box where he'd have to buy more equipment anyway why not do it right the first time?

 

I actually agree with you; my answer was intended as a sorta-tongue-in-cheek. With the current state of the art with software defined radios and related hybrids, it's *way* simpler to take your approach. My van has an aging Icom IC-730 for 10 thru 80 (no FM, but I'm mostly a CW guy anyway). It cost all of $200, and about 2 hours of fixing all the very well documented weak points. Decently small size, runs on 13.8 without a supply (well, in a vehicle...), has VOX & decent DSP.

For VHF, I have just this week replaced my Icom 2100 with an Anytone VHF/UHF mobile with separation cable (teensy control head) and a dualband antenna.

As for all those other bands that the OP isn't interested in, I think it's *way* easier to just switch past the "uninteresting" bands with the band selector than to find a non-military radio that'll do DC-to-Light with channel selectors that double as band switches and antenna coupler settings. There was the Motorola Micom SSB radio, but it wouldn't do 2 Meters.

My boatanchor system has been relocated indoors, where it (and all the Johnson, Hammarlund, and Amplidyne gear) takes over just one-third of the den, instead of virtually all the van's interior

 

Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but just wanted to correct an error. The FT-857 does NOT have an internal antenna tuner. It has the ability to control an EXTERNAL antenna tuner from the radio control head.

 

Could you tx on 10M with the 857d i always tought that radio was rx only on 10M?

 

Yes, you can

 

Noticed R and L electronics had a IC 706 on their used list for 695. Don't know any thing about R&L. If you choose a 706 the mk2 G version offers the most band flexibility. The earlier models didn't include some bands.