Chinese "Daniel" MW/LW portable. - UK Vintage Radio Repair and Restoration Discussion Forum

ekjdm14 · 21st Jun 2019, 3:00 pm

As per my post in the Thanks Thread, I now have one of these, no idea of actual manufacture, when made or indeed if it was perhaps a novelty item available with various names silkscreened onto the fascia.

If anyone has seen one of these before or could offer any info on the set at all, would very much appreciate it. Cheers,

Mike. Watterson · 21st Jun 2019, 5:42 pm

See is there a Japanese three digit code?

Some Chinese made sets used these codes. They identify a Japanese company designing, making or marketing transistor sets.

The shiny alloy centre on the speaker puts it quite late for a LW/MW set.
https://www.radiomuseum.org/forum/japan_757.html
You can download tables of the codes here:
https://www.radiomuseum.org/forum/ja...odes_miti.html

Edit: Not a novelty model, but might have had different names.

paulsherwin · 21st Jun 2019, 6:37 pm

It looks as if it dates from the mid 80s when Chinese companies were first involved in export consumer electronics. It may have come from one of the early Guangdong outfits over the border from Hong Kong. As an indicator of what was to come, it's of some significance.

As Mike suggests, it's quite an old fashioned design, more like something from the 60s than the 80s. Chinese companies weren't exporting consumer electronics in the 60s though - the idea would have been laughable.

ekjdm14 · 22nd Jun 2019, 1:07 pm

Thanks for the replies & info on Japanese sets, nothing like that on this one though (no identifying marks or numbers anywhere on the case, in fact. Just QC and Freq. range stickers etc). I'll open it up again later and get some photos of inside, the speaker has quite nice looking Chinese branding on it.

Looking at the case, it has a blank in the top where either a SW or FM antenna would have lived, and inside there's evidence of crudely snapped off mounts for same. Took it out on top of Bosley Cloud last night with a couple of other battery sets & it's not exactly sensitive but certainly acceptable on both MW and LW (I feel if there was a really strong station around though it'd muscle it's way in right through the dial).

Anyhow, it's a cool little gift from my long suffering partner & will be preserved for the future... Maybe one day it'll be the only one left!

P.S. with batteries in, (4x C cells) it weighs around twice as much, without even exaggerating!

21st Jun 2019, 3:00 pm	#1
ekjdm14 Banned Join Date: Feb 2019 Location: Congleton, Cheshire, UK. Posts: 609	Chinese "Daniel" MW/LW portable. As per my post in the Thanks Thread, I now have one of these, no idea of actual manufacture, when made or indeed if it was perhaps a novelty item available with various names silkscreened onto the fascia. If anyone has seen one of these before or could offer any info on the set at all, would very much appreciate it. Cheers, Attached Thumbnails

21st Jun 2019, 5:42 pm	#2
Mike. Watterson Heptode Join Date: Dec 2014 Location: Limerick, Ireland. Posts: 901	Re: Chinese "Daniel" MW/LW portable. See is there a Japanese three digit code? Some Chinese made sets used these codes. They identify a Japanese company designing, making or marketing transistor sets. The shiny alloy centre on the speaker puts it quite late for a LW/MW set. https://www.radiomuseum.org/forum/japan_757.html You can download tables of the codes here: https://www.radiomuseum.org/forum/ja...odes_miti.html Edit: Not a novelty model, but might have had different names. Last edited by Mike. Watterson; 21st Jun 2019 at 5:53 pm.

21st Jun 2019, 6:37 pm	#3
paulsherwin Moderator Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Oxford, UK Posts: 27,945	Re: Chinese "Daniel" MW/LW portable. It looks as if it dates from the mid 80s when Chinese companies were first involved in export consumer electronics. It may have come from one of the early Guangdong outfits over the border from Hong Kong. As an indicator of what was to come, it's of some significance. As Mike suggests, it's quite an old fashioned design, more like something from the 60s than the 80s. Chinese companies weren't exporting consumer electronics in the 60s though - the idea would have been laughable.

22nd Jun 2019, 1:07 pm	#4
ekjdm14 Banned Join Date: Feb 2019 Location: Congleton, Cheshire, UK. Posts: 609	Re: Chinese "Daniel" MW/LW portable. Thanks for the replies & info on Japanese sets, nothing like that on this one though (no identifying marks or numbers anywhere on the case, in fact. Just QC and Freq. range stickers etc). I'll open it up again later and get some photos of inside, the speaker has quite nice looking Chinese branding on it. Looking at the case, it has a blank in the top where either a SW or FM antenna would have lived, and inside there's evidence of crudely snapped off mounts for same. Took it out on top of Bosley Cloud last night with a couple of other battery sets & it's not exactly sensitive but certainly acceptable on both MW and LW (I feel if there was a really strong station around though it'd muscle it's way in right through the dial). Anyhow, it's a cool little gift from my long suffering partner & will be preserved for the future... Maybe one day it'll be the only one left! P.S. with batteries in, (4x C cells) it weighs around twice as much, without even exaggerating!