[Milsurplus] Chinese 6M- packset, the 884

[Tom B]

>I think maybe some confusion here.
>Mercury was a major radio factory in China which made consumer products as
>well as military pack radios.  The Chinese characters on the front panel
>have the word "Mercury" as one of them.   Just like some of our military
>gear has "Motorola" or "RCA" on it.  Thus there would be several Mercury
>radios with the code names being the second word.
>So... "Mercury Hamster" might be a code name just like "Motorola Handie
>Talkie."

There were code names assigned by NATO to communications 
equipment.  Several were Mercury something.
Mercury Grass R-401M VHF Comms
Mercury Plate R-406 Comms
Mercury Tree unknown comms

This is not a complete list but I think the Chinese radios would have 
fit in this group of NATO given code names.  I doubt Mercury was the 
name of the factory.

Tom Bryan



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