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[Jimmy Park]

Hi everyone!
 
Few years ago I got into searching old wireless microphones in 1980s broadcasts. I was able to identify most of what I was looking for, but I couldn't identify this one and left behind for a while until I recently got back into it.

It was used on NHK's music programs since ~1982, and attached are screenshots of it. Considering it was used by NHK, I reckoned it might be something from Sony's WTR series, but I can't find anything that resembles this.






Following is the actual link to the recording of the show which uses this mic.
https://blog.naver.com/PostView.naver?blogId=bluesky3901&logNo=220970520262&categoryNo=18&parentCategoryNo=&from=thumbnailList

Some characteristics of this mic are: the head resembles that of Neumann 104; it has a long antenna; it is not a dummy mic for lip sync; has three lines engraved at the end of the handle; transmitter doesn't seem like detachable.

I saw previous topics on vintage mics and I was really surprised to see so many people with such a great knowledge on vintage radio mics. I've been digging this model for over 4 years now so any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

[Riley Casey]

The middle picture shows a very good imitation of a Tuchel connector if we're talking about fake RF mics which is what I suspect this is.

[Pete Erskine]

The middle picture shows a very good imitation of a Tuchel connector if we're talking about fake RF mics which is what I suspect this is.

clearly for lip sync... this is not wireless... none of the non singing talent is wireless

[Jimmy Park]

clearly for lip sync... this is not wireless... none of the non singing talent is wireless

Thank y'all for your insights!

The reason I suspected they would be dummies were because the same model was used for presenters too. It might be possible that a dummy was used for the instance that I've screen captured, but in the video I attached, the two MCs use what looks like to be the same model- or at least with the same appearance.

https://youtu.be/YJpY3rLSr30?t=104

[Daniel Levi]

Given it's Japanese I would guess it's probably a Sony with a nonstandard/earlier? head or similar Japanese brand given understandably the Japanese seem to stick with their own brands, given it's got a wire aerial I guess that would rule out Nady, Samson, Vega and Micron as they never had wire aerials on their handhelds.
The length of the aerial leads me to think that the frequency must be lower band 4 at most, so CH22 and below, UHF band 5 (what we used/used as are free and shared user licence space) aerials being shorter and wire VHF aerials being about 1/4 more to double the length (and even longer for the band I stuff).

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