[Milsurplus] Chinese 6M- packset, the 884

[Bruce MacMillan]

I have several Chinese radios that came from RedStar Radio and I had 
taken the manuals to two Chinese co-workers to translate. Both confirmed 
the radios were made by Mercury and that was a brand name like RCA or Sony.

Bruce   ve7mt

Tom B wrote:

>> 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."
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> 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
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> 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.
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> Tom Bryan
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