Page for Mr. Hezbollah!

[SteveShannon]

I just heard that in Lebanon, reports vary from eight killed to 3,000 injured) Hezbollah fighters have been injured when all of their pagers exploded.

Wow!

[LeeBo]

What we know so far about the deadly pager blasts in Lebanon? | Reuters

[Davichko5650]

3 hours ago, SteveShannon said:

I just heard that in Lebanon, reports vary from eight killed to 3,000 injured) Hezbollah fighters have been injured when all of their pagers exploded.

Wow!

google was my friend!!!

 

"On 17 September 2024, communication pagers used by Hezbollah members simultaneously exploded across Lebanon and Damascus, Syria. 16 people were confirmed killed: nine in Lebanon and seven in Syria. Reports say that more than 3,000 were injured. Wikipedia."

 

gotta watch those LiFePO batteries I guess?

[OffRoaderX]

[SteveShannon]

17 hours ago, OffRoaderX said:

https://youtu.be/t9wmWZbr_wQ?si=UbyYQZA6vKW4cMyw

 

[AdmiralCochrane]

Reuters seems to know more about this than Massad

[OffRoaderX]

1 hour ago, SteveShannon said:

https://youtu.be/t9wmWZbr_wQ?si=UbyYQZA6vKW4cMyw

I will see your martian, and raise you with one of the best no-go-boom scenes in television in history: 

 

[SteveShannon]

11 minutes ago, OffRoaderX said:

I will see your martian, and raise you with one of the best no-go-boom scenes in television in history: 

 

I bow in your direction... That's one of the funniest videos I have seen lately.  Timely too.

In rocketry we have a lot of little gadgets.  One of our members had built a nice little business making kits (like Heathkit, but rocketry related).  A couple of his kits are wifi switches, tiny little circuit boards that connect to a battery and to the rocketry electronics.  The switch is very reliable and allows a person to arm the ejection charges while standing a safe distance away.  $15 for the miniature version:

https://eggtimerrocketry.com/home/altimeters-av-bay/

 

[LeoG]

3 hours ago, OffRoaderX said:

I stole this.

[WRUU653]

13 hours ago, LeoG said:

I stole this.

The photo or the 72 vir… never mind, I don’t really need to know.

[SteveShannon]

In this video some guy says that the 5,000 pagers had their batteries replaced with battery assemblies containing explosives as well.  It may have been done while they were being held in customs at a nearby country.  
 

 

[LeoG]

1 hour ago, WRUU653 said:

The photo or the 72 vir… never mind, I don’t really need to know.

What they don't tell them is the 72 virgins are other suicide bombers so they're all guys.

[SteveShannon]

More explosions have occurred.  This time it appears to have involved handheld radios.

An Icom is displayed during the video:

 

[Lscott]

Reminds me of the story of the interrogator walking in to the cell of a soon to be executed terrorist and gave him a box of condoms.

The terrorist thanked the interrogator for thinking of him. The interrogator looked at the terrorist, smiled, and said they weren't for him, but for the 72 virgins where he would soon be going to.

[Hoppyjr]

Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of people.

[SteveShannon]

6 minutes ago, Hoppyjr said:

Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of people.

Yeah, for two days I’ve been chortling.  I’m pretty sure I’m going to hell.

[Tip10]

Obtaining your tech from the enemy you vowed to destroy isn’t very smart….. just sayin’

“The walkie-talkies were booby-trapped in advance by Israeli intelligence services and then delivered to Hezbollah as part of the militia's emergency communications system“

https://www.axios.com/2024/09/18/israel-detonates-hezbollah-walkie-talkies-second-wave-after-pager-attack


Never engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed person.

[LeoG]

You mean like the US buying their computer chips from chyna and putting them in war equipment?

[Hoppyjr]

Disregard. Odd app behavior

[Lscott]

Can anyone identify the Icom radio model from the photo? Note the serial number was cut out of the tag on the radio on the left side of the photo. I'm guessing the antenna port is the silver thing on the left. Most of the Icom radios have the antenna port on the other side. Plus it only has one visible knob on the top which should narrow down the model.

It could be an air band or a VHF marine band radio, since those seem to be primarily the Icom models that would have the antenna port on that side.

https://www.atlanticradiocorp.com/collections/icom-portable-radios?srsltid=AfmBOop8gMs5sD9LSqWHCyBfgpZmtLuaE0mSdNQXEfZYr5fFQ9axPeCm

 

[LeoG]

Only on a radio forum would you have guys asking what radio they used before they were "blowed up"

[Lscott]

2 minutes ago, LeoG said:

Only on a radio forum would you have guys asking what radio they used before they were "blowed up"

Hey, it adds a new element to the thread and keeps it from getting stale.

[OffRoaderX]

NotABOOMphang!

[Tip10]

Only on a radio forum would you have guys asking what radio they used before they were "blowed up"

Hey, it’s far more relevant than a lot of the conversations on a radio forum…..


Never engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed person.

[SteveShannon]

39 minutes ago, Lscott said:

Can anyone identify the Icom radio model from the photo? Note the serial number was cut out of the tag on the radio on the left side of the photo. I'm guessing the antenna port is the silver thing on the left. Most of the Icom radios have the antenna port on the other side. Plus it only has one visible knob on the top which should narrow down the model.

It could be an air band or a VHF marine band radio, since those seem to be primarily the Icom models that would have the antenna port on that side.

https://www.atlanticradiocorp.com/collections/icom-portable-radios?srsltid=AfmBOop8gMs5sD9LSqWHCyBfgpZmtLuaE0mSdNQXEfZYr5fFQ9axPeCm

 

Here’s the web page for the marine radios from the European distributor for the Middle East:

https://www.icomeurope.com/en/radio/handhelds-for-marine/