[Milsurplus] Duracell Coppertop battries

[KD7JYK DM09]

On 1/7/2023 10:05, Al Klase wrote:
> In recent years, I've encountered too many leaking Duracells.
> *I will never buy another Duracell product!*

In '95, I stopped in Beatty, Nevada one night, and turned on the 
scanner.  I heard an ELT in 121.5 MHz!

I quickly called Nellis to inform them.

The ELT was found, in storage, with ruptured size D Duracells, which 
activated it, while slowly eating it from the inside.

There was no really safe way to get it apart, and the batteries out, so 
it was pulverized on the spot.

Can you imagine Nellis, Sandia, TTR, Area 51, losing their shit over an 
ELT in their region due to a POS battery?

Kurt