Curly Shuffle @shuffler.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Is there any utility in reporting radiation readings only in counts per minute (CPM)? Isn't that worthless without knowing what formula to convert CPM from your scintillator or Geiger–Müller tube into a meaningful dosage number? I could be missing something obvious. I'm not a physics person. 010
Curly Shuffle @shuffler.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Thanks to all the Bluesky folks for talking up The Dish because of Sam Neill. Watching for the first time and it is delightful. 000
Curly Shuffle @shuffler.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Happiness is replacing a dodgy radio telemetry link with a fiber optic cable. 000
Curly Shuffle @shuffler.bsky.social · 14/02/2026I am amazed at how clearly this old film explains SWR and impedance matching. I wish I had watched this years ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dovu...youtube.comAT&T Archives: Similiarities of Wave Behavior (Bonus Edition)YouTube video by AT&T Tech Channel 110
Curly Shuffle @shuffler.bsky.social · 26/03/2024Since 2017, I've had a 1990's vintage Soviet Geiger–Müller tube in my tool shed / ham radio shack reporting in to my home SCADA system. It puts out CPM and, with a little math, µSv/hr. In SCADA, I fed that µSv/hr reading into a totalizer to get a daily µSv total. The daily totals seem seasonal. 660