News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Beirut airport bans pagers, walkie-talkies on all flights. Parent comment

Re:Beirut airport bans pagers, walkie-talkies on all flights by tomrod on Thursday September 19, 2024 @06:00PM (#41596820)
Maybe they once were. Are there features now like receipt confirmation?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Beirut airport bans pagers, walkie-talkies on all flights by bigfatkitten on Thursday September 19, 2024 @06:12PM (#41596898)
There was for a while (Motorola ReFLEX), but it was never popular.[1]

The pagers in this case were very boring POCSAG receivers, no transmit capability.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReFLEX

[ Parent | on HN ]