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What Geiger counter??
unknownparticle:
Looking for recommendations on which Geiger counter to buy at an affordable price, for personal use only, in case of some nut job going Nuclear in a certain part of the world ATM!!!
I was trying to find an Ex Nato type, the DOM410, which was available all over the place at one time but not now! From what I can see on youtube many of the Chinky cheapies are not accurate or reliable.
jonpaul:
you need a dosimètre not geiger counter
Check USA civil défense dosimètre, pens and chargers
Jon
unknownparticle:
Thanks but I do want a Geiger counter as I would want to check the local environment to.
Fraser:
I bought some PDRM82 units a few years ago. They turned out to not be of use in my project as they are designed to detect serious levels of Nuclear fallout ! For food contamination you need something more sensitive.
In my opinion the Mini-monitor 900 series of meters are excellent. They offer different probe heads for different applications including contamination testing. On the used market they often sell for reasonable prices around £100. I own a few for X-Ray detection use.
There are also the GQ Electronics series of Geiger counters that appear to be pretty well supported in the community. They tend to use inexpensive Russian Geiger tubes though and are by no means perfect.
https://www.gqelectronicsllc.com/
https://www.gqelectronicsllc.com/forum/default.asp
RoGeorge:
I've read, too, that Russia did some nuclear simulation, and that now US is moving nuclear rockets to Finland, so yeah, I understand your concern.
Beware that selling, and in some parts of the worlds even owning a radiation detector without a permit might be forbidden by local laws. Some years ago we use to have a guy, here in Ro, that developed a detector and made an application for a google map global radiation network, his nickname "radue". This is the first link from rsearch
https://www.pocketmagic.net/global-radiation-monitoring-network/
but I remember he used to have for sale radiation detectors that can be connected to LAN and continuously monitor the environment, outside or indoors. His business took flight by the time of the Fukushima events.
No idea if he's still selling, probably yes.
Beware many of the detectors are for catastrophic events only, and not very sensitive. There is also a big difference between radiation detector and personal dosimeters. One can stand to high radiation levels for a short time, but for measuring health damage/safety, then you'll need a dosimeter.
Let's hope we will never need any of those, after all the war is always very profitable for the very rich and very powerful. My best guess they won't want it ended too soon. So unless nukes or related false flags will be used as a pretext to start a WW3 (I hope this will never happen, since now the idea is common knowledge) then you'll probably never need a radiation detector.
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