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email from one person as well. I read about this, this pager explosion situation yesterday, kind of gave it a quick glance, didn't read too deep into it. But today it's several different sources are saying that Hesbela devices explode again in Lebanon, raising fears of wider Israeli conflict and what we're seeing here this summary of this news article, and I'll link all this in the description blow Waki talkies explode in latest attack. HESBLA rattled by blasts. Fourteen
people killed in four hundred and fifty injured. Lebanon Health Ministry says Israel's Mosad has a long history of sophisticated attacks. So this is from Reuters dot com and it says in Beirut, handheld radios used by Lebanese armed group HESBLA detonated on Wednesday across Lebanon's south south border. I think that means further stroking tensions with Israel, a day after
similar explosions hit the group's pagers. So we're gonna bring the waki talkie thing into light here in a minute on Wednesday in Birroots Bay, Roots So suburbs and the Becca Valley. While the death toll from Tuesday's explosions rose to twelve, including two children, nearly three thousand injured. That's sad to hear, all right down here, it says Lebanon's Red Cross said that said on x on Twitter that
it was responding. I've got a couple of Twitter pictures here in a minute too, with thirty ambulance teams to multiple explosions in different areas, including the south of Lebanon in the Becaw Valley. Images of the exploded walkie talkies showed labels from Icon and made in Japan. According to its website, Icon, which did not immediately reply to a request for comment, is a Japanese based radio communications and telephone company. Yes, yes, we all, we all know this.
These guys don't aren't abreast of Icon. They're not. They're an update updated on Icon. And let me make something very very clear here. This is not the responsibility of ICOM. ICM is not responsible for what happened here any more than a gun manufacturer would be responsible for someone taking their manufactured item and going out and committing a crime with it. Icom is not responsible for this. It's not what I'm saying, Okay. I just wanted to make that
very clear. It is just a news story about ICOM radios and exploding walkie talkies that several of you sent me, like I said a minute ago, so I wanted to make a video about it because it deals with our part of the world. The company said that the production of The model ICV eighty two, which appeared to be the models in the images, was phased out in twenty fourteen. The handheld radios were purchased by HESBLA five months ago,
around the same time as the pagers. The pagers the exploding pages that they were talking about in the news yesterday. I didn't read much about that story. I probably should have pagers. It's kind of like in our wheelhouse. Not really, but a little bit. Scroll down here and Tuesday's explosion source and said that Israeli spies remotely detonated explosives they planted in a HESBLA order of five thousand pagers before they entered the country. The United Nations Security Council will
meet on Friday over the pager blasts. Okay, let's see, so we go over here to ax in Twitter. This is uh Jody V three Saar sent this to me, this link to me here breaking Hesbelo walkie talking explode at funeral in Lebanon. Ooh, a funeral. I didn't realize it was at a funeral. That's sad. And I'm trying the soundback on for a second, and it just kind of sounds like a pop boom you can see the
smoke that we're on the right to running. Okay, I don't want to show too much more of that, so back to this post from x or Twitter as I still call it Twitter. Blast occurs during the funeral of four HESBLO operatives killed in last night's explosions, and it shows a picture here and you can see that it says Icon on that label right there. It's not a very good picture and not very close up, but it definitely says ICOM. Now, something I was also sent later
is that these were possibly fake Icon radios. Another source on Twitter or x right here reports on Lebanon confirm communications devices used by HESWEA exploded in the country south in Bavorite suburbs. One of the blasts occur near a funeral for members killed in a previous incident. On thousands of pages detonated. I think that was yesterday. Right there, there's a ooh, there's a picture of an actual exploded radio. Okay,
I can't really see the ICOM name on that. And this article right here on MSN dot com, not MSNBC, MSN dot com right here, What are the ICOMICV eighty two radios exploding in Lebanon, question Mark shows some pictures there. Radios manufactured by Japanese firm Icon reportedly were among the devices exploding in Lebanon on Wednesday, according to reports first shared in The Jerusalem Post by Bernie News and then confirmed by the New York Times journalist Christian Tribert over
social media. So reportedly we're among the devices. According to this article, not necessarily all of the devices were Icons. These radios follow the wave of pages that exploded Lebanon in parts of Syria on Tuesday, that was yesterday at the time of this recording, winning over a thousand people, especially members of HESBLA. While these attacks were attributed to Israel by Lebanese figures and foreign reports, the Jewish State
has not confirmed its involvement. At the time of this writing, hundreds of people were already reported wounded due to these latest explosions. But what are the radios that allegedly explode in Lebanon. Here's what you need to know. Okay, this is an article of actually about the radio. I will put this link along with everything that I talk about today in the description blow. You guys can go read more about that because I'm not reading the whole thing.
The radios being blown up are reportedly the ICVAD two radios manufactured by dot Com. This is a VHF transceiver is typically used for ham radio communication, meaning it is typically used for amateurs who use it for fun or personal interest rather than for commercial or emergency broadcasting. Sort of yes, sort of. No, we're definitely not commercial operators, but we do MCom a lot of at least in this part of the world. We do. I don't know if they use amateur radio for MCom over in the
Middle East, in Lebanon and Israel, I don't know. I don't know. If someone has information about actual amateur radio MCom in that part of the world, please do comment. Blow However, the ICV eighty two is a discontinued model, with Icon having issued a warning on how to spot counterfeits. Okay, there we go, So I got a counterfeit page. I'm
gonna show you here in just a second. In the warning leaflet, the company warned that these products have been discontinued for a long time and said that the counterfeit models have a risk of battery exploding. Okay, now we're back to the Samsung Galaxy battery explosion that they disallowed on airplanes because they caused problem on airplanes here a while back, what was that the S fourteen Galaxy S fourteen or somewhere around that. Somewhere around that model, remember exactly.
I never had one of those, but those were that was a thing a while back. Are the batteries exploding? The batteries were also credited to being what exploded in the pagers throughout Lebanon. On Tuesday, on social media, Triver reported that several other devices exploded throughout Lebanon, including solar energy cells. It is currently unclear if this is related to the batteries as well. The Jerusalem Post reached out to Icon for comment, but I don't but and that's
where the that's where the story ends. No word from ICOM at the time of this recording. Again, Okay, want to make something perfectly clear. It looks like they're using counterfeit icons because they're talking about these the ic V eighty two, which they said they bought them five months ago. Well, you can buy use radios all the time, right, Okay. I've never own an ICV eight two, but it is a discontinued VHF. Only monoband and then right here that's
a story countermeasure. This is on Iconicomjapan dot com Countermeasures against Counterfeit Products. You can see several different examples here of how you can spot a counterfeit QR code Genuineness Determination System and it tells you a little bit about that scan the QR code. What should you do? What should you do if you find a counterfeit icon products
or counterfeit website? If you suspect that you've been offered to purchase counterfeit icon product, contact your local distributor or directly contact us export a icon dot co dot JP. A list of authorized distributors is here. Okay, so that's how you spot a counterfeit. You guys have probably seen as I have. There's a lot of counterfeiting of I've seen copied Yazoo radios on like Ali Express and Ali Baba.
I was talking just yesterday to somebody I can't remember even who that was, but they were talking about Vayzoo radios. They were Yazoo counterfeits, but they were spelled with a V instead of a Y V A E s U. And at first glance, you're like, oh, that's a Yazoo but then you get look a little bit closer at it, it's like, that's not a Yazuo. It's misspelled. Why they misspelled their own logo. It's not really a yazu. Sot a lot of counterfeit icon products out there, well, wouldn't
you know it. About two to three hours after I recorded the first part of this video that you just watched, new article came out, okay, and I wanted to include this because this is important information. This is from ap news dot com. This is a pretty long article right here, but down here towards kind of the middle what kinds of devices were used? And then shortly down here like
the after that header, it's like the third paragraph. Speculation around the origins of the devices that exploded Wednesday has also emerged. A sales executive from the US subsidiary of a Japanese walkie talking maker, ICM, told the Associated Press that the exploded radio devices in Lebanon appeared to be a knockoff product and not made by them. I could guarantee you that they were not our products, said Ray Novak, a senior sales manager for ICOM's amateur radio division, in
an interview Wednesday at a trade show in Providence, Rhode Island. Okay, good, good job. Ray Novak said, ICOM introduced the VA to two model more than two decades ago. Wow, I didn't realize it was that old and it has been long since discontinued. Yeah, the earlier the last article we just read said it was discontinuing twenty fourteen. That was ten years ago. It was designed for an amateur radio operators and for in use in social emergency communications, including by
people tracking tornadoes at hurricanes. He said, yes, that's true. Yeah, that's one thing that Icon and many many HAM radios are designed for and used for today. It's great to hear, it's great to hear from ICOM. It's great to hear from Ray on that. But I I maintain what difference does it make? And I don't mean that disrespectfully. I'm saying, even if Icon radios had been used for this event,
Icom is not responsible. So yeah, they use some old knockoff radios that are copies of radios have been discontinued for more than ten years. Okay, but even if they'd been Icon radios, I still don't think my stance on the story would change. I just want to say that this is a tragedy. It is. You don't like to hear stuff like this. You don't like to hear about companies that you that you know in respect, companies that you have been involved with. I mean, companies whose products
you've used for a long long time. You don't like to hear about them being in news in this kind of bad light. But I just want to reiterate once more. Okay, ICOM's not responsible for this, especially even if it was a currently in production model. Okay, I wouldn't be like, oh Icom needs Oh my god, what are you doing? No, no, no, no, the Gaza strip, the whole free Palestine thing. I don't I have. I've I've read a little bit about that, but I haven't really I am not well versed in it.
So I'm gonna refrain from saying what because I would probably say it wrong. Okay, this is not a political channel. I'm not really trying to talk about politics, or about geopolitical conflicts, or about Middle Eastern or Israeli wars that go on over there. I'm simply talking about this because Icon was part of this story, and Icon is one of the radio manufacturers that we all know and love, and if it had been another radio manufacturer, I'm quind of.
I'm kind of surprised they didn't have any bowelfangs. How many times have you seen those military guys on the news and they've got like like they've got like probably a ten or a fifteen thousand dollars rifle set up, and they got a twenty five dollars bow fang in their pocket. I think I'm kind of surprised it wasn't
bowfang in there quite frankly, but I don't know. I mean, it seems like they chose some radios that were discontinued that were probably cheaper and easier to get a hold of something that was maybe on a certain frequency they wanted to be on that. Maybe they didn't want all the bow fang guys listening to them. I don't know, I don't know. I don't know what it is, but sad news about that. I'm sorry that it was Icon
that had to be involved in that. I wouldn't wish that on anybody else, but it was a story that was sent to me by several of you guys, and I appreciate those of you who did report it to me. Thanks for watching today, Guys,