Radiation Detector ?

Originally posted by menace71
Plus he had a radio called a heathkit I think I was allowed to play with that one and it was so fun listening to Short Wave and all of the odd bands. The "Voice Of China" I remember the propaganda it was saying in the capitalist west they are making their children carry 150lbs. bags of newspapers or something like that it was funny 🙂

Manny

When I was 13 I built one of those heathkit sw radios, the AR3, here is a picture:

http://heathkit-museum.com/ham/hvmar-3.shtml

My family moved from California to Alaska in 1957 and I took that radio with me. We first moved in to a cabin in the woods, no running anything🙂

No electricity. So I wandered around the woods and one day I came across a building I assumed was some kind of water pump station, it hummed and there was a power pole leading up to it and JOY, I found a 120 volt plug on the power pole!

So I ran home, got the radio and 30 feet of wire for the antenna, plugged it in and was listening to short wave! BTW, 1957 was the peakiest of the peaks of the solar cycle, which happens every 11 years. That peak has not been even close to being duplicated in strength, in fact all the solar cycle peaks have been sequentially weaker, cycle after cycle and this cycle they were worried there would not be a peak at all, there was a pathetic little peak this time but I'm guessing the next peak will be even weaker.

The peaks effect how far you can transmit on frequencies above around 20 Mhz or so, higher energy peaks, more aurora, longer distance communications on sw bands, lower energy peaks, less aurora, radio above 20 mhz sucks.

There was a similar event hundreds of years ago, called the "Maunder Minimum' where no sunspots were seen by the astronomers of the day who counted such things. It also coincided with extremely poor weather in Europe and was said to be the main cause of the Plague, crops couldn't grow.

People starved and the rats that had the fleas that caused the plague went rampant looking for food since there was little food in the barns of Europe, people starving, dying of plague, lost 1/3 of the total population of Europe at the time, they say all caused by 100 years or more of zero sunspots which also meant radio communications above 15 mhz, if they HAD radios then, would have been near impossible.

Propaganda in those days was really hilarious! Radio Havana, Russia, China, all had these really funny stories like you said.

Actually, nowadays, sw radio sucks. Pretty much the only American radio stations now are ultra right wing religious nutters, we have one about 40 miles west of us, I envy their antenna's but the broadcasts suck bigtime.

English language broadcasts are from places like BBC, Radio Netherlands and such,

There are practically NO non-religious english broadcasts coming from the US today. It's really pathetic. It has to be making the USA look like idiots to the rest of the world, like we really need to have more put downs of the US.

These idiots do it all for us.

I once heard one of these so-called christians tell the listening audience this other version of the caste they were in, like anabaptist vs regular baptists or something like that, the dude said, those people don't deserve to LIVE!

I was aghast as such hatred coming from a broadcast in the USA. It made me ashamed to be called American.

Originally posted by menace71
LOL yeah.....just curious but the weather from Japan ends up right here in Northern California. It's hard to determine what is just paranoia and real from the internet. Geiger counters sound like expensive pieces of equipment. I'm sure we get trace amounts of Cesium here and whatever the other elements are. Maybe I'm being paranoid LOL 🙂

Manny

You're not being paranoid, at all. This disaster, in some respects, seems to surpass the Chernobyl disaster.

http://www.totalwebcasting.com/view/?id=hcf#

This is a 5 hour video on the medical and ecological impact from the Fukushima disaster. I'd watch the whole thing, but if you're pressed for time, skip to Arnie Gundersen's (Nuclear Engineer) slide show first. It's pretty horrific on many levels.

The description reads: "A unique, two-day symposium at which an international panel of leading medical and biological scientists, nuclear engineers, and policy experts will make presentations on and discuss the bio-medical and ecological consequences of the Fukushima disaster, will be held at The New York Academy of Medicine on March 11-12, 2013, the second anniversary of the accident.

A project of The Helen Caldicott Foundation, the symposium is being co-sponsored by Physicians for Social Responsibility."

Actually, there's one other independant researcher that I know of that's already doing some radiation readings around the country. Not enough readings, in my opinion, but it's a start. The latest readings were after every snowfall this winter season in his own back yard. He's been doing this since 2011.

*Sorry, there are two 5 hour videos on there. You can find Arnie under the Day 1 video in session 1.

Originally posted by empovsun
You're not being paranoid, at all. This disaster, in some respects, seems to surpass the Chernobyl disaster.

http://www.totalwebcasting.com/view/?id=hcf#

This is a 5 hour video on the medical and ecological impact from the Fukushima disaster. I'd watch the whole thing, but if you're pressed for time, skip to Arnie Gundersen's (Nuclear Engineer) slide ...[text shortened]... ry, there are two 5 hour videos on there. You can find Arnie under the Day 1 video in session 1.

And just think, we built a nuke plant RIGHT ON THE SAN ANDREAS fault. Doesn't that give you that warm and fuzzy feeling.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diablo_Canyon_Power_Plant

How STUPID can you get?

"Why, our plant can take an 7.8 earthquake" I think was one line I heard at the time. I was born in East LA and lived in Venice Beach for a long time.

Lets see, what size was the Fukushima quake?

Originally posted by sonhouse
And just think, we built a nuke plant RIGHT ON THE SAN ANDREAS fault. Doesn't that give you that warm and fuzzy feeling.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diablo_Canyon_Power_Plant

How STUPID can you get?

"Why, our plant can take an 7.8 earthquake" I think was one line I heard at the time. I was born in East LA and lived in Venice Beach for a long time.

Lets see, what size was the Fukushima quake?

It's only a matter of time until California is completely ruined...

If you don't respect the technology, it will never respect you.

Arnie said it best: "Sooner or later, in any foolproof system, the fools are going the exceed the proofs!"