Posted on 09/18/2024 3:17:14 PM PDT by Pol-92064
IC-705 owner here too. My 9700 is in the shop for repair. $16 parts, $250 labor...
I’d be worried about China putting things in solar panels and car batteries. Alll at once, the highways become impassable.
I have a few in my warehouse salvage. Some probably still work.
I checked a used equipment vendor and they have just over 400 in stock of various flavors, for under $200 each.
There is no description of the battery, so I can’t tell you what chemistry. Possibilities include NiCd, NiMh, Li-ion, Li-polymer with NiMh being the cheapest option. All batteries would be aftermarket, as motorola would deny any such battery ever existed. If you ordered thousands, you would most likely get a mix of chemistries.
Thousands of devices exploding simultaneously is impressive. There has to be a uniformity across the board to get this to happen. It seems like a mole would have to access the systems to send the detonate command over the system architecture.
Maybe a satellite could do it on a separate architecture, but now you need a bigger device in the pager/radio and the devices under a roof wouldn’t hear the command.
I will definitely be watching for news on this one.
Tone down the chicken little. Israel targeted specific deliveries to Hezbollah. They do not have the resources to globally infect radios. Nor are they stupid enough to do so.
My father had a Sears .22 that he shot competition with in college. No idea what happened to it, but I think he dropped it overboard in an accident on the Chesapeake Bay. These things happen more frequently than you would imagine, so take heart.
Someone should check on the well-being of Nellie Ohr.
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Some times a ham radio operator is just a ham radio operator.
Icom huh? So a few electronics get sabotaged and all of a sudden every radio in the world is dangerous? If So then how come all my ham radios in my shack never blew up? _____________________
Because, you apparently haven’t ticked off a government sufficiently yet. Your day may be coming.
“If you’re not interested in ham radio you should be.”
Agree 100%!
There have already been “test runs” of bringing down the cellphone networks.
Japan is communist?
LOL
Many these days say “put down the crack pipe”
But bong is still refreshingly useful in that phrase :)
It is also haram, thereby missing the target audience.
Odd drop when they’re connected to the deep state.
The “enhanced” Icom gear is likely commercial equipment. I doubt Israel touched Amateur HTs. de N1ENO
“Japan is communist?”
Icom is Japan?
Yes. ICOM radios are manufactured in Japan
Lousy I-communists.
They haven’t gone after remote-control personal massagers yet, have they? Asking for a friend...
Icom has released several statements addressing the exploding radios. Apparently, neither the radios nor the batteries have been manufactured in about 10 years and the exploders are counterfeit versions:
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