Show threadAI6YR BenSep 19, 2024

"“I can guarantee you they were not our products,” the AP quoted Ray Novak, a senior sales manager for Icom America’s amateur radio division, as saying during an interview Wednesday at a trade show in Providence, R.I.

Novak said Icom introduced the V82 two-way radio model more than two decades ago and it has long since been discontinued. It was favored by amateur radio operators and for use in social or emergency communications, including by people tracking tornadoes or hurricanes, he said."

#icom #hamradio #Lebanon #IcomV82 #disasters #terror

Show threadAI6YR BenSep 19, 2024
"Icom, a Japanese manufacturer of radio equipment, said in a statement on its website Thursday morning that it produced the IC-V82 handheld radio from 2004 to October 2014 and shipped it to overseas markets, including in the Middle East, during that period. But there had been no shipments since the model was discontinued about 10 years ago and the production of batteries to operate the unit had also been discontinued, the company said." #Icom #IcomV82 #Lebanon #terror #war #Israel #hamradio
AI6YR BenSep 19, 2024
NY Times article mentions batteries with PETN in it. I wonder if any of those wandered outside of Lebanon 😬. I guess I will *NOT* be buying any replacement Lithium batteries for my Icom V-8 off eBay (despite probably almost nil chance of buying a Mossad-brand exploding battery) #icomv82 #explodingradios #lebanon
AI6YR BenSep 18, 2024
BBC: Exploding walkie-talkies kill 14 and injure at least 450 in new attacks across Lebanon https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cwyl9048gx8t #icomv82 #explodingicoms #explodingpagers #Lebanon
Lebanon exploding pagers latest: Israel strikes southern Lebanon as Hezbollah leader warns 'red lines' crossed

Hassan Nasrallah says the exploding device attacks are "a declaration of war" which paid "no heed to innocent people".

BBC News