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15th Jan 2019, 6:19 pm | #1 |
Nonode
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I'm Not "Turning Japanese" But I Wish I Could
For my sins, I have a passion for collecting Japanese made Walkie Talkies but one model in the "Gakken" range leaves me stumped.
See pic #1 and the text in pic #2 I can't work out what the model number is ! Perhaps one of you already know but if not, does anyone know Japanese and can translate it from pic #2. There appears to be a number 5 in the text, although I could be imagining it. It's driving me nuts !!! Cheers
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15th Jan 2019, 10:28 pm | #2 |
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Re: I'm Not "Turning Japanese" But I Wish I Could
I just tried the Google Translate app on my phone which works through the camera. I use it quite often when dealing with some Japanese equipment in the day job. It came up with all sorts of nonsense (my favourite being 'Echo horse') but seems most confident with 'Echo' on the top line followed by 'radio' on the bottom line, maybe followed by 'three' or 'love' or something else.
Chris
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15th Jan 2019, 11:09 pm | #3 |
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Re: I'm Not "Turning Japanese" But I Wish I Could
We had a gentleman from Japan (Hiro) join us just a few days ago - perhaps a polite PM to him will yield results. You can find him in the ongoing thread about QRP on his Trio TS-510, here
https://vintage-radio.net/forum/showthread.php?t=153115 |
16th Jan 2019, 5:44 am | #4 |
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Re: I'm Not "Turning Japanese" But I Wish I Could
Sirius,
Many thanks, I'll drop him a polite PM Tony
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16th Jan 2019, 5:50 am | #5 |
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Re: I'm Not "Turning Japanese" But I Wish I Could
cmjones01
Thanks for your help, even if a model number never existed I like the idea of Echo. Cheers Tony
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16th Jan 2019, 5:50 am | #6 |
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Re: I'm Not "Turning Japanese" But I Wish I Could
I'll report back after I contact Hero.
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16th Jan 2019, 9:06 am | #7 |
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Re: I'm Not "Turning Japanese" But I Wish I Could
Hiro.
He seems a decent chap, and his English is excellent. I was able to help him a bit with his HF transceiver. David
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16th Jan 2019, 12:18 pm | #8 |
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Re: I'm Not "Turning Japanese" But I Wish I Could
エコーラジホーン
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katakana ekoorajihorn or, to correspond to the nameplate: Echo Radio Phone David |
17th Jan 2019, 12:00 pm | #9 |
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Re: I'm Not "Turning Japanese" But I Wish I Could
Thanks Chris & David then "Echo" it is, that'll do me.
Tony
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