Re: Exploding pagers

On Fri, 20 Sep 2024 08:37:14 +0100, John R Walliker wrote:

On 20/09/2024 06:15, Bill Sloman wrote:

On 20/09/2024 7:07 am, john larkin wrote:

On Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:26:23 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom
<cd999666@notformail.com> wrote:
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On Wed, 18 Sep 2024 16:48:01 -0400, bitrex wrote:
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On 9/18/2024 4:01 PM, Gerhard Hoffmann wrote:

Am 18.09.24 um 20:08 schrieb john larkin:

On Wed, 18 Sep 2024 17:30:23 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom
<cd999666@notformail.com> wrote:

 
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Thank god one of them didn't go off in an airliner with Europeans on
board at the time. That could so easily have happened. Hopefully the
airlines'
explosive sniffers would have detected them. If they cannot, they'll
have to do something *quick* to improve security measures to ensure
it can't happen going forward.

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It was probably detonated by some special message, and wouldn't have
worked on a plane.

 
Planes are Faraday cages. These days they do use WiFi inside the
aircraft to give people access to the Web, but pagers rely on older
technology.

 
Not really. They have windows.  The doors are not electrically connected
to the fuselage all the way round so they act as slot antennas.
Mobile phones work fine inside planes.
 
John

Indeed. Anyone can see that zero commercial aircraft are RF-tight. Only a
simpleton would assume that because occupants are unharmed by lightning
strikes it means no EM can leak in. Also bear in mind VHF/UHF comms are
line of sight and planes are exposed to EM from anywhere on the ground
they're visible from, even if it's only half a Watt - the typical output
of a hand-held walkie-talkie.