VK3UKF de CT1AIC

Welcome to this group, Kevin. I can't help you with your CDV715
problem, but try the following yahoo groups:

CDV700CLUB
GeigerCounterEnthusiasts

There will be plenty of members, some of them also amateur radio guys,
with acknowledgments to help you.

Meanwhile, see my Geiger Counter collection at
http://ct1aic.org/radioactive/

I hope to win your Uranpyrochlore sample as I think it's a good one,
for my collection.

Best 73.
Rui, Portugal


--- In radiation_detection@yahoogroups.com, "Kevin" <vk3ukf@...> wrote:
>
> Hello fellow members, I ended up here after Rui, CT1AIC made a bid on
> an item I was selling on eBay, a sample of Uranpyrochlore from Western
> Australia, hi Rui. I thought to myself, now there's a radio operator
> callsign, if ever I saw one. Google, google, here we are.
> My problem, a while ago I purchased a Victoreen CDV 715, it came with 4
> dosimeter pens and charger calibration unit. The charger works fine,
> but the CDV 715 is faulty. The batt test works OK, it appears to offer
> a reading on X 1 and X 0.1 scale but this is seemingly just a reading
> of a capacitor charge as it does not vary with radiation, and after a
> few minutes, begins to decrease. Any suggestions on the method of
> repair for this unit would be most welcome. I thought it best to ask
> first before I dove in and maybe broke it completly. Thanks in advance,
> Kevin, VK3UKF.
>