[R-390] Meters...

[blw]

Hank,

It has been covered, but we get new members who have questions. Something
new always comes out of this stuff. Fer instance, we never knew that you
flew those AEC missions. Pretty interesting to read about, only you didn't
mention what you flew.


Barry



> What a bunch of worry warts. How many 1,000's of guys were around them
> for 50 years and
> "DO YOU KNOW OF ANY STERILE OR MIS FORMED OLD OPS?" No way.
> I flew over the AEC test site for 2 years in Airborne Radiation
> Monitoring Service (ARMS) wearing a dosimeter to measure 4 different
> forms of radiation plus all of the instruments in the aircraft with
> never an excessive reading on the bi monthly dosimeter checks.
> I can assure you that there is no way to exceed the annual allowed
> M-roetgin (sp) readings.
> My ROLEX wrist watch has a tare count of 185 Mr on a 18" photomuliplier
> tube used for setting ZERO prior to flight and then an hour flying over
> our calibration site near Pahrump, NV to ZERO the plane prior to
> tracking a leakage event and or tracking all on the nuclear sites in the
> USA.
> So send me all of you hot bad meters and let me clean and store them in
> all of my 30 plus R-39XX radios.
> 
> This has been covered numerous times.
> Please show proof of damage from meter exposure PERIOD
> Hank
> KN6DI