Mr Blinky

Early afternoon and I hear a mighty humming noise. A swarm of bees had come to visit! 😊 After I had run around the house closing the windows I caught a bit on video. I've never been this close to a swarm of bees. Being behind a window was great as they were super close. I did consider going outside but they moved off shortly after filming them. They also came back a few hours later but didn't hang around and I didn't get my camera in time. I think they may have been mating as there seemed to be two swarms which you can't really see on the video, but that is the reason I moved the camera from

I have been trying to find info on this tube since I got my HFS-P3 Chinesium pen counter, with little to no avail. By chance, a new user to radmon.org (gissio - welcome!) has already found the info and manufacturers website so I have compiled an English version datasheet for this tube (below). Many thanks to gissio for the info! ( https://github.com/Gissio/fs2011pro/tree/main/docs/tubes ) The HH614 is a new tube to the market, released in June 2022. It's quite compact but the size does limit it's sensitivity somewhat. It's gamma sensitivity is 10 CPS/mR/hr compared to the SBM20 at 22

For all of the posts in the Negative Ion Energy Ju-Ju series, click here. 'Ponit' !!! LMAO 🤣 I think that should be 'Point'... Yes, another potentially dangerous Ju-Ju device. Thanks to FSM19 for pointing me to this. It is rather interesting. It comes in a little black cardboard case but sadly no authenticity card. It does have a little leaflet inside (below) with the usual bullshit and spelling/grammar errors to boot. The text isn't even complete and ends with 'and improves nutrient take up by the' and that is it! Muppetry at it's finest. 😂 Its a very interesting piece. Much like all of

For all of the posts in the Negative Ion Energy Ju-Ju series, click here. Round three, four, five? Of Quantum Energy Thorium Radiation Ju-Ju FIR Energy Stuff That Will Not Do You Any Good! Yay! 😄 The more you look for these things, the more you find. It's insane! And I bought some. A pretty glass pendant and a lovely set of a pendant and plastic card. And the glass pendant and plastic card are considerably hotter than the previous pendants. All bought from Ali Express and all containing Thorium. Here are my findings. I messed up with the camera again, a bit, and there wasn't enough light so I

Here are a couple of interesting videos taken inside the damaged Chernobyl reactor 4. The following comment was posted on the first video that lends a little information about who and when the video was recorded. The second video (in Russian) I picked up from the comments of the first as someone was asking what kind of protective clothing did they wear. It's not quite as interesting as the first video, but still interesting nonetheless. Comment from the first video by user J4yChu: I’ve researched, and come up with a few things about the video! The person filming is Alexander Kupny. He was a

For all of the posts in the Negative Ion Energy Ju-Ju series, click here. A while ago I saw a video (below) where the creator had purchased several 'Negative Ion Energy' products that actually contain radioactive Thorium. Most of these products are wearable items and some other 'Nume' cards, or whatever they are. At the time I searched for these but seems they had all been pulled form the stockists shelves. Then I saw a more recent video by the same creator and searched again, and lo and behold, the same products are stocked up again and readily for sale - to unsuspecting people that may

A cheap and easy way to change a blue LCD or OLED display to yellow/amber using Kapton tape. I don't like blue displays. I never have done. I have always found them to be harsh on the eyes, especially in dark environments. I also find them more difficult to read than green or yellow displays. Blue is a colour that is rarely found in nature. It really was a colour that was/is quite unnatural to the eyes until recent times. It reduces melatonin release into the body and can affect sleep. I discovered some years back that Kapton tape can change blue displays into yellow/amber just by simply

My J305βγ tube is very light sensitive so I made a quick video demonstrating this. I shine daylight (on a miserable cloudy grey day) on the tube at first, then a 365nm UV flashlight and finish off with daylight again. The effects seem to work only at the anode end and not at the cathode end. Doing a little research I found that the light sensitivity of GM tubes only occurs in glass walled tubes that have an external cathode. The specifications show this about the tube wall: Tin oxide Cathode, Coaxial cylindrical thin shell structure (Wall density 50+-10cg/cm2). The cathode is on the exterior

A member (of radmon.org) asked me if the Gamma Scout would/could work with radmon.org using the USB and software the counter came with. The answer to that is a simple, no, not out of the box, but it could be done with a quick hack. Simply add a couple of wires and connect them straight to an ESP8266 or similar MCU. This guide only covers the 'Alert' model. There may be differences with other Gamma Scout models. Here is how: Open up the Gamma Scout and locate the small transistor at the top left of the board, right above the pin header. There we are going to solder on a wire to the middle pin

Here are some pictures and details about the SI-8b (СИ8Б) Pancake Geiger Muller tube. The adhesive failed between the tube and the Bakelite rear case on my tube, so it would be rude not to take it apart for a look! From what I understand this tube is designed for soft beta detection, but is also capable of alpha, hard beta and gamma, although calibration would center on soft beta particles. I did however read this from a website: 'This Geiger-Mueller tube is only sensitive to β and γ radiation. The calibration is only correct for the γ radiation (662keV) emitted from Cs-137.' I will test at