Pagers .... Now Handie Talkies

[Wire Weasel]

And Baofeng to you too buddy

 

[TIN_CAN]

Sounds like a success.

 

[nomadradio]

Just over 50 years ago I had a job that included servicing Motorola "Pageboy" pocket pagers. They were about the size of a pack of king-size cigarettes but a little thinner, not quite as wide. By the time ten years had passed, pagers were a fraction of that size. Gotta wonder just how in hades do you hide any useful amount of explosive in a volume that small.

I'm baffled as to how they did it.

Just sounds like something out of the original "Man from U.N.C.L.E." or "Get Smart".

73

 

[Enterprise312ok]

Perhaps a backdoor into the protection chip on the Lithium battery, I have also seen reports of solar system explosions in Lebanon.
We all carry bombs in our pockets these days.

 

[Enterprise312ok]

According to Reuters the handhelds that exploded were Icom IC-V82 vhf hts.