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  2. 2024 Lebanon pager explosions - Wikipedia

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    Contents. 2024 Lebanon pager explosions. Israel [ b ] On 17 and 18 September 2024, thousands of handheld pagers and hundreds of walkie-talkies intended for use by Hezbollah exploded simultaneously across Lebanon and Syria in an Israeli attack. [ 8 ] As of 22 September 2024, 42 people had died, [ 7 ][ 9 ] including at least 12 civilians. [ 10 ]

  3. Pager - Wikipedia

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    Pager. A pager, also known as a beeper or bleeper, [1] is a wireless telecommunications device that receives and displays alphanumeric or voice messages. One-way pagers can only receive messages, while response pagers and two-way pagers can also acknowledge, reply to, and originate messages using an internal transmitter. [2]

  4. Taiwan security bodies 'paying great attention' to Hezbollah ...

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    September 19, 2024 at 12:01 AM. TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan's national security team is "paying great attention" to the detonation of thousands of pagers targeting Hezbollah in Lebanon, the island's ...

  5. Motorola Pageboy II - Wikipedia

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    Pb II MAA04FNC1568AA 440–470 MHz für Funftonfolge-Rufsysteme (Eur). Pb II radio pager H04BNC Series 406–420 MHz, 450–470 MHz (US and Eur). The variety and reliability made the system popular worldwide. The European system worked strictly in the 85–87, 150–170 and later on in the 450–512 MHz band and was based on the ZVEI codes.

  6. Pager attack used well-worn spy tactic to inflict new ... - AOL

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    The attack on the militant and political group Hezbollah via exploding pagers and walkie-talkies this week, widely believed to be conducted by Israel, was a novel use of a well-trodden spy tactic ...

  7. Motorola Pageboy - Wikipedia

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    Motorola Pageboy was the second pager produced by Motorola with individual-unit addressing, [clarification needed] after the lesser-known "Handie-Talkie Radio Pocket Pager" from 1955. [citation needed] The first pager-like system was used in 1921 by the Detroit Police Department. However, the first pager that we would today recognize as such ...

  8. Wireless telegraphy - Wikipedia

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    Wireless telegraphy or radiotelegraphy is the transmission of text messages by radio waves, analogous to electrical telegraphy using cables. [ 1 ][ 2 ] Before about 1910, the term wireless telegraphy was also used for other experimental technologies for transmitting telegraph signals without wires. [ 3 ][ 4 ] In radiotelegraphy, information is ...

  9. Morse code - Wikipedia

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    This Morse key was originally used by Gotthard railway, later by a shortwave radio amateur [2] Morse code is a telecommunications method which encodes text characters as standardized sequences of two different signal durations, called dots and dashes, or dits and dahs. [3][4] Morse code is named after Samuel Morse, one of the early developers ...