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For the archive: Oct. 24th, 2003: The Groups-Home is online at: http://muon.captain.at/ Visit the site for a detailed description, schematics and information...
Hannes Mayer
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Oct 24, 2003
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I found a unique application of the Radio - SkyPipe strip charting program that some of you might find useful. Basically the program will chart any audio feed...
John W Samouce
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Dec 9, 2003
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P.S. I noted that the attachment (not-text portion of ...) was deleted. Anyone wanting this attachment send me an e-mail and I will e-mail it back to you. ...
John W Samouce
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... Hi John! So the group is opened :-) Yes, the SkyPipe has many yet 'undiscovered' uses. People also suggested it to use it for recording data of our...
Hannes Mayer
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Dec 10, 2003
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Somewhere I got two files: "bga.exe" and "IO.DLL" which is called a "Background Radiation Analyser". I get the messages "Unable to start the IO.SYS service."...
John W Samouce
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... Hi John! Try copying the IO.DLL into the directory where Windows keeps all DLL's. In W2k that would be WINNT\system32 On the other hand, I didn't find the...
Hannes Mayer
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Dec 10, 2003
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Thanks. That worked on a Win 98 machine but not on the XP machine. Dusty On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 22:14:04 +0100 Hannes Mayer <captain@...> writes: ... the ...
John W Samouce
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Dec 11, 2003
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Dear Listmembers! Merry Christmas to all members who celebrate! :-) All the best from Austria, Hannes. -- "Silent Night! Holy Night!" was composed in Austria! ...
Hannes Mayer
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Dec 23, 2003
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Hi all! Happy New Year 2004 & All The Best! :-) Greetings from Austria (2 hours to go and counting ;-) Hannes. -- ...
Hannes Mayer
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Dec 31, 2003
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Hi all! I just announced this group on other 'related' groups and some new members already joined! Welcome aboard! :-) Today I started with the high voltage...
Hannes Mayer
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Jan 3, 2004
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Hi Guys I'm John Murray from Bristol, UK. I'm halfway through building my muon telescope. The power supply unit is complete. The first of the (four) ...
John Murray
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Hello, Through the computer club at my school I'm involved in the quarknet project (quarknet.fnal.gov) and have been directing those in the comupter club to...
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Jan 3, 2004
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Hi all! Just to kick off a discussion, here is my yet unresolved "mystery": I found these 2 online neutron monitors: http://cosmicrays.oulu.fi/ ...
Hannes Mayer
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Jan 3, 2004
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Greetings from the beatiful Bitterroot Valley of western Montana (46N/114W, 4200'). I have two Aware Electronics RM-70s on order for the heart of my muon...
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Jan 3, 2004
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Hi John, I have your BRG program and have been using it connected to a CD V-700 GM counter (necessary to reverse polarity of audio signal to get the pulse in...
John W Samouce
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Hi Dusty... Just import the files into Excel. The RAD file gives count per minute for each minute recorded, The RAN file logs each event separately with the...
John Murray
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Hannes! Congratullations: I love this topic! How about the New Year? Best regards, Jorge Dewey...
Jorge G. Dewey
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Jan 4, 2004
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Hannes and Forum, I have some scintillation Xtals (sodium iodide), plus photomultiplier tubes, plus preamplifiers. All you have to do is to add a power supply...
Jorge G. Dewey
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Jan 4, 2004
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John et al, I would really appreciate pointers to where to buy a pair of GM tubes at a good price. Esp. ones suited for this activity. Thanks, Eric Vogel ... ...
Eric Vogel
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Hi Eric Well, I'm no expert, but I get mine from eBay. Mostly they are ex RAF items called 'Trainers' and usually sell for about £9.00 ($13.00?). I strip...
John Murray
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Hi all! Last year in summer when I was thinking about which detector I should build I also considered useing commercial GM tubes, but then decided to build my...
Hannes Mayer
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Jan 4, 2004
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John Strong had a chapter on Geiger counters in his Procedures in Experimental Physics. One of the homemade tubes was 6" in diameter by about 4 ft long. The...
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Jan 4, 2004
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Hi Steve! ... Shawn Carlson, who wrote the arcicle for sciam.com ...
Hannes Mayer
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Jan 4, 2004
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Try e-Bay under "Geiger Counter". A CD V-700 is a Geiger Counter. Other CDs such as V-715 and V-717 are ion chamber types and not useful for muon detection...
John W Samouce
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Jan 4, 2004
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... I have experimented with GM detectors and written on them a bit in the SAS (Society of Amateur Scientists founded by Shawn) E-Bulletin. Here are a few...
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Jan 4, 2004
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Thanks for the pointers to your updates Joe. Seems like it should be possble to come up with something that's more metal/less polymer and still simple and...
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Jan 4, 2004
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... Hi Joseph! Welcome aboard!!! Now that is cool! Thanks a lot for the links and sharing first hand information on the topic! :-D Regarding the "glue" to put...
Hannes Mayer
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... Any old gas will work in a detector such as this. However, there are consequences... in particular, the ionization energy (IE) of the gas has a profound...
Joseph DiVerdi
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... Dear Steve, You're welcome. There are many other configurations. I'm just a simple linear thinker without much imagination. :) It sounds like you're...
Joseph DiVerdi
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Joseph, Not on topic but to your question, spiral TLTs aren't especially big but they are a good way to achieve voltage multiplication and get a very short...
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