This is an email I received, can anyone help...
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If you haven't gotten MeteoEarth as an android or ITunes app, I heartily recommend that you do, as it has 3D views of wind, jet stream, storm and many other patterns having to do with global circulation, which of course affects the dispersion of radioactivity. My son picked up on it as it is from Germany and was released there before it was available over here. They just recently came out with a tablet version that seems to work well on my device. It is really eye candy too for those really needing to pay attention to weather patterns.
As far as the 200 goes, I notice that using the USB provided by gq electronics prevents me from using the detector to detect gamma at all, though I can use the audio cable and there is some response. ZLM, or you perhaps, I recall said they were able to get much higher gamma readings on their computer, whereas I seem to top out at a little under 1300 consistently, no matter how I try to adjust the volume, sensitivity, height etc. Are there other adjustments I can make to get more out of the instrument's ability to discern gamma readings? Do you ever use, or know anyone who does, an alternative cable types or other tools that would let me put down the very nice USB cable and work with the gamma sensitivity at times? I have tried putting my counter out the window for hours at a time, well in a screened window, that is, and have had no spike at all in what I am reading compared to here inside. The beta particles are not supposed to be able to pass through the wall, so it leaves me with some question of the nature of what I am what exactly measuring inside. Especially so because my counter stays pretty low and stable even if the others around me get busy reacting to in creased activity. I know that many times an elevated reading indicate increased activity of many types, as they tend to travel together. But there are some particles that don't react as well to the instruments designed to react to cesium mainly. I would like to learn how to detect some of the others too. I am not going to obsess about it, but it does become pretty evident that my counter is not as reactive as it perhaps could be.
No biggy, but if you have wisdom you would not mind sharing about the capacity of the GMC 200 to deal with gamma properly I would love to listen.
Meanwhile, MeteoEarth is very neat.
Thanks for your endeavors.