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You all notice that the Central and South East readings on a general level have been ~20-30% higher above averages this past week? Been watching the map and noticed this trend for a week now. Today, while in Itasca, IL the GMC300E in my car went off registering 149 then in Carol Stream by Dupage Airport it went off again, this time 130-136. Normal readings are in the 20's for that area. Overall, just seemingly odd and trending in the wrong direction unfortunately. Anybody else noticing a similar pattern?

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Tue Feb 04, 2014 8:17 pm
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Tue Feb 04, 2014 8:45 pm
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This is interesting.

:?: Before your geiger counter went off, your readings were below the 20's

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Tue Feb 04, 2014 9:31 pm
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no readings were in the high 20's in the area. Also, my mistake the airport was Schaumburg airport, not DuPage.

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Wed Feb 05, 2014 10:47 am
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EB789320 wrote:
no readings were in the high 20's in the area. Also, my mistake the airport was Schaumburg airport, not DuPage.


This is concerning because my regular waist high background readings are between 15-27 CPM using the same type of geiger counter as you.

Have your readings returned to the middle 20's?

Side note: I find the graph display setting on the GMC-3xx to be useless, I prefer for myself using the large CPM display function with the backlight locked on.

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Wed Feb 05, 2014 1:04 pm
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I am not in that area today, so I can't tell.

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