Just what it says -- this is the place for any discussions not related to Buying, Selling and Trading ham gear. The discussion must be related to Ham Radio.
I have had about 10 or more of them and the last new one I had was about two years ago and it had a 0208XXX serial number. I am not even sure that Icom uses the year in their number. I know Yaesu does and Kenwood uses the Number of the production year but I am not sure about Icom.