New station Riga, Latvia

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8 years 3 months ago - 8 years 3 months ago #2450 by Technomancer
Hello, everyone!
While sorting stuff in my garage, I found few unused Soviet made STS-6 Geiger counter tubes. So I decided to make environmental radiation monitoring. I have custom built meteostation near my work, so I thought that this would be good place to install my Geiger counter. I made 400V converter and some pulse counting logic and connected that to Raspberry-Pi embedded computer that's controlling temperature, humidity and wind speed. I have two tubes, one shielded, other unshielded, so i can approximately measure both gamma and beta separately. For now I have only CPM units that are not calculated as more relevant data. All these parameters are monitored over SNMP and graphed by network monitoring system. After few days of my new system on-line I noticed radiation spike this Monday. After brief search for other graphs on-line i found this website and it seemed pretty cool that everyone can add their radiation data on map.
Here are some pictures of my station.







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8 years 3 months ago #2451 by Gamma-Man
Replied by Gamma-Man on topic New station Riga, Latvia
Sveiki and Welcome, from a former resident of Riga.

Regards,

Carl

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8 years 3 months ago #2456 by Technomancer
Sveiki, sveiki, Carl, that's really surprising to find someonehere who knows Latvia!

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8 years 3 months ago #2461 by bethsalem
Replied by bethsalem on topic New station Riga, Latvia
Hello and Welcome. Great setup, I'm jealous of your double STS-6 system. :) When can you make me one? :lol:

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8 years 3 months ago #2462 by Technomancer
Hehe, as You see, there's place for two more STS-6 that I might install later.
Are You really interested in setup like mine? :D

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8 years 3 months ago #2463 by bethsalem
Replied by bethsalem on topic New station Riga, Latvia
Absolutely!

It has such great potential for not only discriminating between beta and gamma radiation, but you could use it for coincidence detection too.

If you like you can post here more details, or pm me if you would prefer.

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