[R-390] Bunches of Radios and the Border

[Bill Hawkins]

No, it isn't all stopped by the glass. You can get Geiger 
clicks a foot away with a sensitive counter. Maybe a few
millirem, IIRC.

The military removed the meters because they were a hazard
with a hundred radios on a pallet, or more in a warehouse.

Bill Hawkins


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:r-390-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Gregory W. Moore
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 8:31 AM
To: Gord Hayward; r-390 at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [R-390] Bunches of Radios and the Border

I am not at all sure that the meters would trip the radiation sensors. 
Aren't tje meters Radium?? if that is true, then we are talking Alpha,
and the glass faces will stop all traces.

Correct me if i'm not right here, but all the hoopla about the
"radioactive meters" is 99% Gov't BS, and the other 1% about the fear of
the glass getting broken and allowing that miniscule amount of Radium to
escape  --hi--- I wouldn't eat them, and would wash my hands if I came
across a busted meter, but that's all the precautions I would take...

73 de Greg "GW" Moore WA3IVX/NNN0BVN