[aprssig] Nuclear Power Plant Icon?

John Vause jdv at iglou.com
Fri Jul 21 11:52:28 EDT 2006


Wonder how hard it would be to hack one of these:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/security/81ee/
"Keychain size radiation monitor and alarm"

Robert Bruninga wrote:
>>>><AA3JY at Winlink.org> 07/21/06 8:14 AM >>>
>>
>>I saw an interesting icon being used to represent a Nuclear 
>>Power Plant..... what is the accepted icon to represent a 
>>nuclear power plant?
> 
> 
> Actually, I was pondering a "radiation" symbol, since with the
> concern over rogue dirty nukes, the best detection methods
> to catch these things while they are being built is to have
> radiation sensors everywhere. 
> 
> And since APRS is everywhere and radiation sensors are 
> realtively easy to interface to an APRS gizmo, it might make
> sense to have a "radiation" symbol for such possible
> applications.  But until I found a simple radiation sensor,
> I wasnt persuing it.
> 
> Is there a way to make a smoke detector into a cheap radiation
> sensor?
> 
> de Wb4APR, Bob
> 
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