{"id":2843,"date":"2012-02-23T18:39:57","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T22:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=2843"},"modified":"2012-02-28T10:32:05","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T14:32:05","slug":"can-you-identify-this-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/can-you-identify-this-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you identify this radio?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Can you ID the radio in this photo? Click to enlarge. (photo: ABC News)<\/p><\/div>\n

SWLing Post reader, Kim, wondered if anyone could identify the make and model of the radio (pictured right) which had been modified to contain a bomb. Terrorists used these devices recently in Thailand. \u00a0ABC News featured an article and video about the attacks<\/a>, but I’ve seen little about the make\/model of radio that had been used.<\/p>\n

Update: See JW’s comment below–this is an\u00a0EPE model FP-103U.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SWLing Post reader, Kim, wondered if anyone could identify the make and model of the radio (pictured right) which had been modified to contain a bomb. Terrorists used these devices recently in Thailand. \u00a0ABC News featured an article and video about the attacks, but I’ve seen little about the make\/model of radio that had been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,554],"tags":[912,913,914],"class_list":["post-2843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-slightly-off-topic","tag-abc-news","tag-radio-bombs","tag-thailand-radio-bombs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-JR","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10285,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/abc-radio-staff-memo-outlines-cuts-to-external-service\/","url_meta":{"origin":2843,"position":0},"title":"ABC Radio staff memo outlines cuts to external service","author":"Thomas","date":"July 15, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post reader,\u00a0Jonathan Marks, who has posted a letter by Michael Mason (Acting Director of ABC Radio) to the staff of ABC. 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