sixties Posted December 26, 2010 Report Share Posted December 26, 2010 Would it have been possible in the 1960s to telephone a device in order to set off an explosive device?Today you can do that with mobile phones. In the plot the objective is to telephone a seagoing vessel and blow it up.Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hero999 Posted December 26, 2010 Report Share Posted December 26, 2010 Yes, I'm pretty sure it was possible, even back then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixties Posted December 26, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 26, 2010 How would it have been done? In this plot the murderer wants to phone a yacht to make sure a party of people are going ashore in the launch together. Once assured that is the case he phones the device aboard the launch and the launch explodes. What sort of technical detail would be involved?I don't need a step by step breakdown, just some accurate stuff about what was used so it worked and the plot seems feasible. The incident is meant to have taken place in the Bay of Islands NZ. I want the story to have at least superficial veracity.Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hero999 Posted December 26, 2010 Report Share Posted December 26, 2010 The easiest way would've been some kine of tone detector system. The device calling the bomb would send a tone of a certain frequency which would trigger the explosion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Jack Posted December 28, 2010 Report Share Posted December 28, 2010 If radio controlled airplanes were possible back then. I would think it would make more sense to use a remote detonator of that variety. Once they'd phoned or radioed and confirmed that their targets were aboard the target craft, they'd just push the button to detonate. Trying to get a particular tone seems over elaborate with that era of tech. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hero999 Posted December 28, 2010 Report Share Posted December 28, 2010 If radio controlled airplanes were possible back then. I would think it would make more sense to use a remote detonator of that variety. Once they'd phoned or radioed and confirmed that their targets were aboard the target craft, they'd just push the button to detonate. Trying to get a particular tone seems over elaborate with that era of tech.That's fine for a manual system, I thought he wanted automatic.The only purpose of the tone was to confirm that the device calling the bomb wants it to explode. It could easily be made so anything calling it triggers the explosion but that wouldn't be safe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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