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Speaker 1: might have heard the news about exploding pagers in Lebanon
Speaker 1: from hesblah some kind of Israeli conflict going on in
Speaker 1: Middle East right now. Today there's reports of radios exploding
Speaker 1: and it looks like they're Icom radios, but I think
Speaker 1: they're fake Icom radios. Check this out. This was sent
Speaker 1: to me by two or three of you. A couple
Speaker 1: guys on discord sent this to me. I got an
Speaker 1: email from one person as well. I read about this,
Speaker 1: this pager explosion situation yesterday, kind of gave it a
Speaker 1: quick glance, didn't read too deep into it. But today
Speaker 1: it's several different sources are saying that Hesbela devices explode
Speaker 1: again in Lebanon, raising fears of wider Israeli conflict and
Speaker 1: what we're seeing here this summary of this news article,
Speaker 1: and I'll link all this in the description blow Waki
Speaker 1: talkies explode in latest attack. HESBLA rattled by blasts. Fourteen
Speaker 1: people killed in four hundred and fifty injured. Lebanon Health
Speaker 1: Ministry says Israel's Mosad has a long history of sophisticated attacks.
Speaker 1: So this is from Reuters dot com and it says
Speaker 1: in Beirut, handheld radios used by Lebanese armed group HESBLA
Speaker 1: detonated on Wednesday across Lebanon's south south border. I think
Speaker 1: that means further stroking tensions with Israel, a day after
Speaker 1: similar explosions hit the group's pagers. So we're gonna bring
Speaker 1: the waki talkie thing into light here in a minute
Speaker 1: on Wednesday in Birroots Bay, Roots So suburbs and the
Speaker 1: Becca Valley. While the death toll from Tuesday's explosions rose
Speaker 1: to twelve, including two children, nearly three thousand injured. That's
Speaker 1: sad to hear, all right down here, it says Lebanon's
Speaker 1: Red Cross said that said on x on Twitter that
Speaker 1: it was responding. I've got a couple of Twitter pictures
Speaker 1: here in a minute too, with thirty ambulance teams to
Speaker 1: multiple explosions in different areas, including the south of Lebanon
Speaker 1: in the Becaw Valley. Images of the exploded walkie talkies
Speaker 1: showed labels from Icon and made in Japan. According to
Speaker 1: its website, Icon, which did not immediately reply to a
Speaker 1: request for comment, is a Japanese based radio communications and
Speaker 1: telephone company. Yes, yes, we all, we all know this.
Speaker 1: These guys don't aren't abreast of Icon. They're not. They're
Speaker 1: an update updated on Icon. And let me make something
Speaker 1: very very clear here. This is not the responsibility of ICOM.
Speaker 1: ICM is not responsible for what happened here any more
Speaker 1: than a gun manufacturer would be responsible for someone taking
Speaker 1: their manufactured item and going out and committing a crime
Speaker 1: with it. Icom is not responsible for this. It's not
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Okay. I just wanted to make that
Speaker 1: very clear. It is just a news story about ICOM
Speaker 1: radios and exploding walkie talkies that several of you sent me,
Speaker 1: like I said a minute ago, so I wanted to
Speaker 1: make a video about it because it deals with our
Speaker 1: part of the world. The company said that the production
Speaker 1: of The model ICV eighty two, which appeared to be
Speaker 1: the models in the images, was phased out in twenty fourteen.
Speaker 1: The handheld radios were purchased by HESBLA five months ago,
Speaker 1: around the same time as the pagers. The pagers the
Speaker 1: exploding pages that they were talking about in the news yesterday.
Speaker 1: I didn't read much about that story. I probably should
Speaker 1: have pagers. It's kind of like in our wheelhouse. Not really,
Speaker 1: but a little bit. Scroll down here and Tuesday's explosion
Speaker 1: source and said that Israeli spies remotely detonated explosives they
Speaker 1: planted in a HESBLA order of five thousand pagers before
Speaker 1: they entered the country. The United Nations Security Council will
Speaker 1: meet on Friday over the pager blasts. Okay, let's see,
Speaker 1: so we go over here to ax in Twitter. This
Speaker 1: is uh Jody V three Saar sent this to me,
Speaker 1: this link to me here breaking Hesbelo walkie talking explode
Speaker 1: at funeral in Lebanon. Ooh, a funeral. I didn't realize
Speaker 1: it was at a funeral. That's sad. And I'm trying
Speaker 1: the soundback on for a second, and it just kind
Speaker 1: of sounds like a pop boom you can see the
Speaker 1: smoke that we're on the right to running. Okay, I
Speaker 1: don't want to show too much more of that, so
Speaker 1: back to this post from x or Twitter as I
Speaker 1: still call it Twitter. Blast occurs during the funeral of
Speaker 1: four HESBLO operatives killed in last night's explosions, and it
Speaker 1: shows a picture here and you can see that it
Speaker 1: says Icon on that label right there. It's not a
Speaker 1: very good picture and not very close up, but it
Speaker 1: definitely says ICOM. Now, something I was also sent later
Speaker 1: is that these were possibly fake Icon radios. Another source
Speaker 1: on Twitter or x right here reports on Lebanon confirm
Speaker 1: communications devices used by HESWEA exploded in the country south
Speaker 1: in Bavorite suburbs. One of the blasts occur near a
Speaker 1: funeral for members killed in a previous incident. On thousands
Speaker 1: of pages detonated. I think that was yesterday. Right there,
Speaker 1: there's a ooh, there's a picture of an actual exploded radio. Okay,
Speaker 1: I can't really see the ICOM name on that. And
Speaker 1: this article right here on MSN dot com, not MSNBC,
Speaker 1: MSN dot com right here, What are the ICOMICV eighty
Speaker 1: two radios exploding in Lebanon, question Mark shows some pictures there.
Speaker 1: Radios manufactured by Japanese firm Icon reportedly were among the
Speaker 1: devices exploding in Lebanon on Wednesday, according to reports first
Speaker 1: shared in The Jerusalem Post by Bernie News and then
Speaker 1: confirmed by the New York Times journalist Christian Tribert over
Speaker 1: social media. So reportedly we're among the devices. According to
Speaker 1: this article, not necessarily all of the devices were Icons.
Speaker 1: These radios follow the wave of pages that exploded Lebanon
Speaker 1: in parts of Syria on Tuesday, that was yesterday at
Speaker 1: the time of this recording, winning over a thousand people,
Speaker 1: especially members of HESBLA. While these attacks were attributed to
Speaker 1: Israel by Lebanese figures and foreign reports, the Jewish State
Speaker 1: has not confirmed its involvement. At the time of this writing,
Speaker 1: hundreds of people were already reported wounded due to these
Speaker 1: latest explosions. But what are the radios that allegedly explode
Speaker 1: in Lebanon. Here's what you need to know. Okay, this
Speaker 1: is an article of actually about the radio. I will
Speaker 1: put this link along with everything that I talk about
Speaker 1: today in the description blow. You guys can go read
Speaker 1: more about that because I'm not reading the whole thing.
Speaker 1: The radios being blown up are reportedly the ICVAD two
Speaker 1: radios manufactured by dot Com. This is a VHF transceiver
Speaker 1: is typically used for ham radio communication, meaning it is
Speaker 1: typically used for amateurs who use it for fun or
Speaker 1: personal interest rather than for commercial or emergency broadcasting. Sort
Speaker 1: of yes, sort of. No, we're definitely not commercial operators,
Speaker 1: but we do MCom a lot of at least in
Speaker 1: this part of the world. We do. I don't know
Speaker 1: if they use amateur radio for MCom over in the
Speaker 1: Middle East, in Lebanon and Israel, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't know. If someone has information about actual amateur radio
Speaker 1: MCom in that part of the world, please do comment.
Speaker 1: Blow However, the ICV eighty two is a discontinued model,
Speaker 1: with Icon having issued a warning on how to spot counterfeits. Okay,
Speaker 1: there we go, So I got a counterfeit page. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna show you here in just a second. In the
Speaker 1: warning leaflet, the company warned that these products have been
Speaker 1: discontinued for a long time and said that the counterfeit
Speaker 1: models have a risk of battery exploding. Okay, now we're
Speaker 1: back to the Samsung Galaxy battery explosion that they disallowed
Speaker 1: on airplanes because they caused problem on airplanes here a
Speaker 1: while back, what was that the S fourteen Galaxy S
Speaker 1: fourteen or somewhere around that. Somewhere around that model, remember exactly.
Speaker 1: I never had one of those, but those were that
Speaker 1: was a thing a while back. Are the batteries exploding?
Speaker 1: The batteries were also credited to being what exploded in
Speaker 1: the pagers throughout Lebanon. On Tuesday, on social media, Triver
Speaker 1: reported that several other devices exploded throughout Lebanon, including solar
Speaker 1: energy cells. It is currently unclear if this is related
Speaker 1: to the batteries as well. The Jerusalem Post reached out
Speaker 1: to Icon for comment, but I don't but and that's
Speaker 1: where the that's where the story ends. No word from
Speaker 1: ICOM at the time of this recording. Again, Okay, want
Speaker 1: to make something perfectly clear. It looks like they're using
Speaker 1: counterfeit icons because they're talking about these the ic V
Speaker 1: eighty two, which they said they bought them five months ago. Well,
Speaker 1: you can buy use radios all the time, right, Okay.
Speaker 1: I've never own an ICV eight two, but it is
Speaker 1: a discontinued VHF. Only monoband and then right here that's
Speaker 1: a story countermeasure. This is on Iconicomjapan dot com Countermeasures
Speaker 1: against Counterfeit Products. You can see several different examples here
Speaker 1: of how you can spot a counterfeit QR code Genuineness
Speaker 1: Determination System and it tells you a little bit about
Speaker 1: that scan the QR code. What should you do? What
Speaker 1: should you do if you find a counterfeit icon products
Speaker 1: or counterfeit website? If you suspect that you've been offered
Speaker 1: to purchase counterfeit icon product, contact your local distributor or
Speaker 1: directly contact us export a icon dot co dot JP.
Speaker 1: A list of authorized distributors is here. Okay, so that's
Speaker 1: how you spot a counterfeit. You guys have probably seen
Speaker 1: as I have. There's a lot of counterfeiting of I've
Speaker 1: seen copied Yazoo radios on like Ali Express and Ali Baba.
Speaker 1: I was talking just yesterday to somebody I can't remember
Speaker 1: even who that was, but they were talking about Vayzoo radios.
Speaker 1: They were Yazoo counterfeits, but they were spelled with a
Speaker 1: V instead of a Y V A E s U.
Speaker 1: And at first glance, you're like, oh, that's a Yazoo
Speaker 1: but then you get look a little bit closer at it,
Speaker 1: it's like, that's not a Yazuo. It's misspelled. Why they
Speaker 1: misspelled their own logo. It's not really a yazu. Sot
Speaker 1: a lot of counterfeit icon products out there, well, wouldn't
Speaker 1: you know it. About two to three hours after I
Speaker 1: recorded the first part of this video that you just watched,
Speaker 1: new article came out, okay, and I wanted to include
Speaker 1: this because this is important information. This is from ap
Speaker 1: news dot com. This is a pretty long article right here,
Speaker 1: but down here towards kind of the middle what kinds
Speaker 1: of devices were used? And then shortly down here like
Speaker 1: the after that header, it's like the third paragraph. Speculation
Speaker 1: around the origins of the devices that exploded Wednesday has
Speaker 1: also emerged. A sales executive from the US subsidiary of
Speaker 1: a Japanese walkie talking maker, ICM, told the Associated Press
Speaker 1: that the exploded radio devices in Lebanon appeared to be
Speaker 1: a knockoff product and not made by them. I could
Speaker 1: guarantee you that they were not our products, said Ray Novak,
Speaker 1: a senior sales manager for ICOM's amateur radio division, in
Speaker 1: an interview Wednesday at a trade show in Providence, Rhode Island. Okay, good,
Speaker 1: good job. Ray Novak said, ICOM introduced the VA to
Speaker 1: two model more than two decades ago. Wow, I didn't
Speaker 1: realize it was that old and it has been long
Speaker 1: since discontinued. Yeah, the earlier the last article we just
Speaker 1: read said it was discontinuing twenty fourteen. That was ten
Speaker 1: years ago. It was designed for an amateur radio operators
Speaker 1: and for in use in social emergency communications, including by
Speaker 1: people tracking tornadoes at hurricanes. He said, yes, that's true. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's one thing that Icon and many many HAM radios
Speaker 1: are designed for and used for today. It's great to hear,
Speaker 1: it's great to hear from ICOM. It's great to hear
Speaker 1: from Ray on that. But I I maintain what difference
Speaker 1: does it make? And I don't mean that disrespectfully. I'm saying,
Speaker 1: even if Icon radios had been used for this event,
Speaker 1: Icom is not responsible. So yeah, they use some old
Speaker 1: knockoff radios that are copies of radios have been discontinued
Speaker 1: for more than ten years. Okay, but even if they'd
Speaker 1: been Icon radios, I still don't think my stance on
Speaker 1: the story would change. I just want to say that
Speaker 1: this is a tragedy. It is. You don't like to
Speaker 1: hear stuff like this. You don't like to hear about
Speaker 1: companies that you that you know in respect, companies that
Speaker 1: you have been involved with. I mean, companies whose products
Speaker 1: you've used for a long long time. You don't like
Speaker 1: to hear about them being in news in this kind
Speaker 1: of bad light. But I just want to reiterate once more. Okay,
Speaker 1: ICOM's not responsible for this, especially even if it was
Speaker 1: a currently in production model. Okay, I wouldn't be like,
Speaker 1: oh Icom needs Oh my god, what are you doing? No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: the Gaza strip, the whole free Palestine thing. I don't
Speaker 1: I have. I've I've read a little bit about that,
Speaker 1: but I haven't really I am not well versed in it.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna refrain from saying what because I would
Speaker 1: probably say it wrong. Okay, this is not a political channel.
Speaker 1: I'm not really trying to talk about politics, or about
Speaker 1: geopolitical conflicts, or about Middle Eastern or Israeli wars that
Speaker 1: go on over there. I'm simply talking about this because
Speaker 1: Icon was part of this story, and Icon is one
Speaker 1: of the radio manufacturers that we all know and love,
Speaker 1: and if it had been another radio manufacturer, I'm quind of.
Speaker 1: I'm kind of surprised they didn't have any bowelfangs. How
Speaker 1: many times have you seen those military guys on the
Speaker 1: news and they've got like like they've got like probably
Speaker 1: a ten or a fifteen thousand dollars rifle set up,
Speaker 1: and they got a twenty five dollars bow fang in
Speaker 1: their pocket. I think I'm kind of surprised it wasn't
Speaker 1: bowfang in there quite frankly, but I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 1: it seems like they chose some radios that were discontinued
Speaker 1: that were probably cheaper and easier to get a hold
Speaker 1: of something that was maybe on a certain frequency they
Speaker 1: wanted to be on that. Maybe they didn't want all
Speaker 1: the bow fang guys listening to them. I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know what it is, but
Speaker 1: sad news about that. I'm sorry that it was Icon
Speaker 1: that had to be involved in that. I wouldn't wish
Speaker 1: that on anybody else, but it was a story that
Speaker 1: was sent to me by several of you guys, and
Speaker 1: I appreciate those of you who did report it to me.
Speaker 1: Thanks for watching today, Guys,