Note
22er Mark III
QST, Feb 1972, .p 117. (photo)
The Clegg 22’er Mk III is one of the ghost products of amateur radio. While the original 22’er and the Mk II had multi-year production runs, the Mk III was essentially a transition model that appeared just as the market was shifting rapidly from AM to FM. As far as can be determined, the Mk III was advertised only once, in the February 1972 issue of QST.
The ad, which read in part ,"In case you have forgotten, there is still a 2 meter AM band..." seemed to be a call to those few hams you didn't want to move to FM.
The Mk III included several incremental improvements over the Mk II, but was released at the worst possible time for a high-end 2-meter AM rig. Because by 1972, FM repeaters were exploding in popularity. Amateurs were trading in their AM equipment for synthesized FM rigs.
If the Mk III was sold at all, it likely was produced for only a few months at most. Casual research in 2026 found no examples of the Mk III in photos online.
One might ask why Clegg would release something like the Mk III at all? The company's "22er FM" (nearly identical in appearance to the Mk III), and the (sort of) synthesized FM-27 both pre-dated the Mk III by at least six month. The Mk III itself was followed two month later by the genuinely synthesized FM-27A, which almost certainly spelled the end of the Mk III.