The cheapest Geiger counter is a simple neon lamp biased just below the
gas breakdown threshold so any applied radiation with ionize the
gas. <br /><br />73, Joe Jesson, KC2VGL<br /><br />> Of course,
every geiger counter kit is now sold out.<br />> <br />> But is
there a cheap alternative?<br />> <br />> All we need is a large set
of parallel plates and a means to detect a<br />> passing particle
causing a momentary change in conduction. Crazy thought<br />> here,
but would a large capacitor work? It has the large surface area and<br
/>> ionizing radiation would surely cause a momentary pulse..<br />>
<br />> OH.. shucks. But then what you have is the other 99.9999999%
of the<br />> parallel plates acting like a HUGE filter capacitor
ACROSS the output...<br />> thus completely swamping the pulse.
Sheesh... nevermind.<br />> <br />> The Geiger tube has very low
capacitance. Hence very easy to detect.<br />> <br />> Maybe just
for grins one could try the physically largest (High voltage)<br />>
and<br />> lowest value capacitor they have in their junkbox, biased,
and hooked to a<br />> high gain audio amp?<br />> Bob, Wb4APR<br
/>> <br />> <br />> -----Original Message-----<br />><br
/>From: aprssig-bounces@tapr.org [mailto:aprssig-bounces@tapr.org] On
Behalf<br />> Of Tapio Sokura<br />> Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011
5:22 PM<br />> To: aprssig@tapr.org<br />> Subject: Re: [aprssig]
APRS Radiation sensor<br />> <br />> On 03/22/2011 10:31 PM, Pentti
Gronlund wrote:<br />>> Bob Bruninga writes:<br />>>> How
about this for Radiation Telemetry:<br />>>><br />>>>
Using Tapio's idea (below) of 2 digits of precision and one digit of<br
/>> decade.<br />> <br />>> Actually this idea was mine. Tapio
did most of the work in putting<br />>> it all together in readable
form.<br />> <br />> Benjamin is right, it was his idea on IRC and I
basically just wrote it<br />> out. So I should've used the wording
"We are suggesting..." and<br />> enumerated the
"we" part. Anyway neither of us is wants any royalties<br
/>> on it, so go ahead and use it if you like :-)<br />> <br />>
Tapio<br />> <br />>
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