[Milsurplus] Chinese 6M- packset, the 884

[D C *Mac* Macdonald]

SHEESH!  Stuff from China seems to frequently contain lead.
Why should it be a surprise that there is stuff made by Mercury?

;-)

Mac, K2GKK




> Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 07:23:31 -0800
> From: radio at telus.net
> To: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Chinese 6M- packset, the 884
>
> 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."
>>