Astro ?

No, no, not that Astro, he was an early 1960s phenomenon.

There you are, the CIR Astro 200, a late 1970s ham radio, one of the first synthesized HF rigs.  Here is an interesting blog by KA7OEI:

https://ka7oei.blogspot.com/2025/05/refurbishing-cir-astro-200-hf-amateur.html

Notice the price:

Not cheap considering a ham could get nearly four Heathkit HW-101 rigs for about the same money.  The thing I noticed wasn't so much the price but those six panel mounted switches:

The switches look a little amateurish (maybe appropriate considering the market?) - CIR should have bought 6 extra hex nuts and properly mounted the switches.  Previously blogged on here:

https://wb9kzy.blogspot.com/2025/09/panel-mounting-switch.html

Maybe it was a question of cramming it all in there and there was no room to accomplish proper mounting ?  A rig which was supposedly a subsequent version of the CIR Astro 200 was the Swan Cubic Astro 150:

Here they ditched the panel mount switches for the momentary, center off, rotary knob and the plastic switches to the upper right - problem solved !

Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm