Hi Breck - Nice video - as usual!  You might motivate me to revive my BC-659.  HiHi

Just for fun I tested the meter needle for radioactivity.  Mine reads 0.22 mR/hr with the detector touching the panel.  That's about 20 times my local background.  It falls off via 1/r^2 as expected.   The GQ GMC-800 Geiger counter cannot detect the alpha's from the radium (the meter glass stops those anyway) but it does detect the associated gamma's.  

I had tested my BC-683 "artillery band" VHF FM receiver as well.  It's quite "Spicy" at over 25 times the level of the BC-659.  Some details on that here: https://www.n6cc.com/bc-683-vhf-fm-artillery-receiver/

No great concern, we all know the precautions...

Thanks for posting your work!  

73, Tim

N6CC