The firmware on the GQ GMC line is updatable, the latest update adds fast estimate reading, and raises the max CPM (it was 65k CPM, as well as the other measurements). With fast estimate reading set to 5 seconds it will no longer take minutes to count up and stabilize, it'll be over in seconds.
The basic goal is to chart the local aerea for hotspots that might have a nuclear source hidden. A combination of GPS coordinates and a mobile (Bluetooth) radiation detector that can combine the data (On the Go) into a map with all the values in color on it. This way you get a very good insight in what is dangerous to be near or not. Avoiding years and years of 2 microsieverts exposure is a must. It is waiting for that iPhone that has this tiny tube (or dedicated chip) built in.
Well I admit it sounds like advertising but believe me it’s not. After discovering that some of the stuff in every day life might be radioactive it just made me freak out. So I check if on Amazon there was any Geiger counter at a reasonable price... after finding this one I started doing some research to see if it’s actually a junk or it’s ok for what I need, which is to check my older dishes/cups or house walls etc... I found this video which explains nicely how it works and that it works ok so it convinced me to buy it. :) I am not even from the field. Sorry for making you more confusing about the Geiger counter. I perfectly understand you. 😅 That is why I wrote the comment in the way I wrote it... because I said ... ah wtf... I’m gonna try it and see how it works. Well good news. I bought it and except for the background radiation nothing else seems be radioactive in my house. ☢️ 😅 Then I thought ... well now that I know everything is ok I could also return it... but I kept it. Will keep it in my box and once in a while will try it on new stuff or maybe on some rocks... 😅
Obviously I have to be careful about what dishware I eat ... lol That would be an interesting device to take with you to a flea market, and see what you might pick up. That's assuming the flea markets get to open up at some point.
Thanks for posting this. I just got this, and of course since I ordered from Amazon, I was sent someone's return. Luckily it seems to be working okay. I think someone just didn't know how to use it.
The Fiestaware was not dangerous to eat off of. The uranium oxide is dissolved in the glass glaze and does not get into the food. If you stored something strongly acidic in the bowl over a period of time some of the glaze might dissolve. If it did you would find the surface would no longer be shiny, but storing acidic materials is not something you would typically do with dinner ware.
The danger from fiestaware's radioactivity was overblown. The radioactive decay is so low and several orders of magnitude lower than what is required to harm or kill you. If there ever was a danger, it was from the heavy metal toxicity, because Uranium is about as chemically toxic as lead. So if you somehow accidentally dissolve massive qualities of uranium into a solution that your body can absorb (because eating it in its metallic form will just pass through your body) and drink this solution over and over again, it would chemically poison you to death long before you felt the affects from the radiation.
Holy crap I've been using fiesta wear plates since I was little. I still have my grandmom's dishes. I was going to get one of these meters for the new smart meter Xcel energy is going to install, now I have to get it for my dishes.
You have very low background radiation. I keep my Terra-P + Geiger counter next to my computer, so I can keep an eye on the readings all the time. It usually reads 0.17 micro sieverts. The lowest reading I've had here is about 0.10 micro sieverts and the highest was a spike of around 0.36 micro sieverts. The lowest reading I've had is out on a highway, when it was reading 0.7 micro sieverts. I think the alarm goes off if it gets up to about 0.22 micro sieverts. I keep a list of alarm times. Over the past few weeks, there have been about four or five spikes of around 0.30+ micro sieverts.
I really like my Soeks detector. So small and works very well. It's the one I do tend to carry with me. Nice to have at flee markets and such. I don't have a GMC-300E or any other unit from GQ Electronics. They just look kinda cheap. Thanks for the demonstration. Subbed and liked.
@@FluffyBuzzard2TheMax Stuff to make the biggest nuclear bomb one man can achieve, I hope this year will be when this gentleman will show us his finest works, I heard New York is gonna be his target, damn I am already outside with my tent and some binoculars.
At about 49 seconds into the video you mentioned that you planned to publish some sort of info about ion detectors, (possible drawbacks of that method of detection?). I searched your channel for that video, but can't seem to find it. Maybe I was using the wrong search criteria? Anyway, I'm very interested in hearing what you have to say in that video. If you could point me in the right direction, I would be eternally grateful. 😁
6:00 Heh, yeah, probably not good a good idea to eat the plate itself, but Thunderfoot is eating his food from a fiesta plate, he's a bit of a rebel. 😸
i just bought a 500+ version mine had none od the stickers on the manual or box like yours. It was a total pain in the ass to get it online and im getting normal between 0.02 and 0.24. left it on for the past day and a half and its come down significantly. Can i ask why is it that the levels fluctuate so much, airflow? would of loved a soecks one but they are too pricey here in aus.
I find it a bit odd they're saying 1mSv/hour is dangerous, when I was making a classifier to predict long-term survivability and cancer risk assessment based on dosage I had to set the lowest limit to 250mSv because there was so few cancer patients or persons who died from that low-level exposure it would not have been useful.
Dosimeters measure radiation from nuclear decay, mostly in micro-Sv/h. You should get a dosimeter for radiation measurement such as beta-particle decay, background radiation, ... EMF meters measure electromagnetic waves, which has nothing to do with radiation. They won't do a thing near uranium.
Hello, I have a question. I live in japan in the south, but im moving to the north with my family because of a new job. I want to purchase a geiger counter, I don't have a huge amount of money, some maybe something like in the video would be good. is this available on amazon? I cannot seem to find it. or can I order it to japan from pcbway?
Just curious, what did you pick up on your geiger counter readings from Fukushima? I just bought a geiger counter and I have been using it for the last day. I pick up 0.09-0.16 usv/h (avg 16CPM) where I live in WNY. Thank you!
@@MkmeOrg Thank you so much. I also went through Fukushima. I was wondering the background radiation was back then (2011-2014). I know it's got to be some serious radiation to cause the counter to move. I have my alarm set at 35 where I live and I've only hit that number 4x since I turned the GQ GMC 500+ on 4 days ago. I tested a gutter that burned my foot, a desk I know sat through Fukushima and WIPP radiation, and a shelf and came up with nothing. In all instances when background CPM hit 35 (max 41), I tasted metal in the air. The metal is dangerous. I called the state representative, assembly men, EPA, and water company about it back then. EPA hung up on me and gave me the run around on the phone when I tried to get the radiation standards lowered for water. ... Does your counter go up when cars drive by?
@@MkmeOrg PS: I still don't know what you mean by, "double background radiation." Was the CPM 40, then? Or maybe it was 100!? Normal background radiation goes up to 50!
@@MkmeOrg I saw a comment from a guy on a video talking about Japan's radioactive seaweed. The guy who commented said he lived in Denver, CO and he claimed to have detected 200CPM from rainfall in that location in 2011!
@@johnnychronic222 the reason why that person detected so much was because of radon washout, where radon rises up from the ground and mixes with water vapor and when it rains you can get a few thousand counts per minute with a pancake detector. There was and still is a very tiny amount cesium-137 (nuclear fallout essentially) in water but it’s so low it doesn’t pose much of a threat. But yeah radon washout is a phenomenon that has been going on forever. Just informing people :)
Those would be RF... As for detecting those- the answer is yes they are around you. No you dont need any device to detect them. No- they wont hurt you. If you want to receive any of them- SDR on ~900mhz for smart meters, SDR on 2.4ghz and 5.8ghz for wifi but why bother. Yep they are there.
@@MkmeOrg I appreciate the feedback. How do feel about the 5G towers? for example, the unit across the street has a 5G tower near their balcony. Is that too close?
I would not be concerned. You already have a 2.4 and 5.8 ghz transceiver in your house and a cellphone parked against your brain while you talk on it. Dont use the antenna for a bedtime pillow and you will be fine.
"Las Baterias no Sirven" Batterys are dead. Nice video I learned about that fiesta ware thing, Incredible that people were actually consuming food laced with that stuff.
Really want to test this out where I work. Work with laser every day on work, and are really interested to find out if that makes radioactive particles. Also found out, we got a shipment of Strontium that I read some bad shit about. Probably I mixed something together. But strontium-90 is not something to mess around with.
The greater than and lower (less) than symbols are backward- on the safety reference placard. Seems that whomever produced the document did not pay attention to their math studies in elementary school.
None of those readings are actually alarming regardless of the alarms 😆. But if you did grind that up and eat it it would only be 87mSv per year. But you would poop most of it out in 24 hrs and what would be left would be mostly negligible. Radium is the one to watch out for it likes to replace calcium. That said not all the radium girls did end up with cancer and they ingested insane amounts. The danger of radiation is very hyped and I would eat vegetables grown in Fukushima, I would live there, I would drink treated water from the holding pond. Remember burnt food, wd40, Bondo, super glue, and inner tubes all cause cancer. The odd of getting cancer in Fukushima are less than that of dieing in the needlessly stressful evacuation proceedings.
you cant actually test these geiger counter this way as these counters are not made to give a dose rate reading at the contact : the geometry of the geiger tube isnt at all made to give an accurate measure this way. These geiger counter are made mostly to measure the ambiant radiation level and also to detect radioactivity of an object and tell wether or not its radioactivity is high or low. . The dose rate read at the contact is always inaccurate and a very rough estimate . At 10-20cm it improves as the field of radiation becomes more even. Keep that in mind when you buy these geiger counters for the public.
More budget oriented lab gear & equipment: ruclips.net/video/gbIwZtUXinY/видео.html
The firmware on the GQ GMC line is updatable, the latest update adds fast estimate reading, and raises the max CPM (it was 65k CPM, as well as the other measurements). With fast estimate reading set to 5 seconds it will no longer take minutes to count up and stabilize, it'll be over in seconds.
The basic goal is to chart the local aerea for hotspots that might have a nuclear source hidden. A combination of GPS coordinates and a mobile (Bluetooth) radiation detector that can combine the data (On the Go) into a map with all the values in color on it. This way you get a very good insight in what is dangerous to be near or not. Avoiding years and years of 2 microsieverts exposure is a must. It is waiting for that iPhone that has this tiny tube (or dedicated chip) built in.
I was considering of buying it on Amazon but wasn’t sure if it was worth it. Now I’ll definitely buy it! Thank you for the video! 👍
This comment sounds like an advertisement do u talk like that lol
Im more hesitant to buy anythibg with such a simplord comment like this on it
Well I admit it sounds like advertising but believe me it’s not. After discovering that some of the stuff in every day life might be radioactive it just made me freak out. So I check if on Amazon there was any Geiger counter at a reasonable price... after finding this one I started doing some research to see if it’s actually a junk or it’s ok for what I need, which is to check my older dishes/cups or house walls etc... I found this video which explains nicely how it works and that it works ok so it convinced me to buy it. :)
I am not even from the field. Sorry for making you more confusing about the Geiger counter. I perfectly understand you. 😅
That is why I wrote the comment in the way I wrote it... because I said ... ah wtf... I’m gonna try it and see how it works.
Well good news. I bought it and except for the background radiation nothing else seems be radioactive in my house. ☢️ 😅
Then I thought ... well now that I know everything is ok I could also return it... but I kept it. Will keep it in my box and once in a while will try it on new stuff or maybe on some rocks... 😅
@@vladi1475S check rocks in your yard. You'll be surprised
@@AZJYouCantAfford I will try! :)
do you think this would be good for clocks to measure the radiation on the faces on early clocks
Obviously I have to be careful about what dishware I eat ... lol That would be an interesting device to take with you to a flea market, and see what you might pick up. That's assuming the flea markets get to open up at some point.
Jeez that's a fucking good idea! Especially here (Greece) they have entire streets dedicated to ww1 and ww2 memorabilia
Thanks for posting this. I just got this, and of course since I ordered from Amazon, I was sent someone's return. Luckily it seems to be working okay. I think someone just didn't know how to use it.
Thanks for stopping by my live stream the other day. Have a great day.
Thanks Tom
The Fiestaware was not dangerous to eat off of. The uranium oxide is dissolved in the glass glaze and does not get into the food. If you stored something strongly acidic in the bowl over a period of time some of the glaze might dissolve. If it did you would find the surface would no longer be shiny, but storing acidic materials is not something you would typically do with dinner ware.
The danger from fiestaware's radioactivity was overblown. The radioactive decay is so low and several orders of magnitude lower than what is required to harm or kill you. If there ever was a danger, it was from the heavy metal toxicity, because Uranium is about as chemically toxic as lead. So if you somehow accidentally dissolve massive qualities of uranium into a solution that your body can absorb (because eating it in its metallic form will just pass through your body) and drink this solution over and over again, it would chemically poison you to death long before you felt the affects from the radiation.
I been want one for a while. Is it still decent even after they changed the type of Geiger tube they use in it now?
Holy crap I've been using fiesta wear plates since I was little. I still have my grandmom's dishes. I was going to get one of these meters for the new smart meter Xcel energy is going to install, now I have to get it for my dishes.
I’ve had a GMC-300 for some years with excellent performance.
Put it agains the tube of your laser cutter, do those collect radioisotopes ?
Omg!!!! Radioactive dishware was a thing?!?!? 😳⚛💣 Good vid, good real review. You just earned a new subscriber! Thanks for this vid.
Heh, in the 40s they had radioactive make-up... look it up on RUclips.
It's like the food cooks itself! Amazing!
Check rad girls
I need something that can pick up alpha beta gamma and x-ray as well.
What is a good unit for these?
Thanks. I just bought one. May have some legal issues with my former employer.
how did it go any update of what you used it and readings??
You have very low background radiation. I keep my Terra-P + Geiger counter next to my computer, so I can keep an eye on the readings all the time. It usually reads 0.17 micro sieverts. The lowest reading I've had here is about 0.10 micro sieverts and the highest was a spike of around 0.36 micro sieverts. The lowest reading I've had is out on a highway, when it was reading 0.7 micro sieverts. I think the alarm goes off if it gets up to about 0.22 micro sieverts. I keep a list of alarm times. Over the past few weeks, there have been about four or five spikes of around 0.30+ micro sieverts.
That's chernobyl levels right there ☢️☢️☢️
I really like my Soeks detector. So small and works very well. It's the one I do tend to carry with me. Nice to have at flee markets and such. I don't have a GMC-300E or any other unit from GQ Electronics. They just look kinda cheap. Thanks for the demonstration. Subbed and liked.
@@FluffyBuzzard2TheMax Damaged Fiestaware or radium painted clocks I imagine. lol
@@FluffyBuzzard2TheMax
Stuff to make the biggest nuclear bomb one man can achieve, I hope this year will be when this gentleman will show us his finest works, I heard New York is gonna be his target, damn I am already outside with my tent and some binoculars.
@@FluffyBuzzard2TheMax fresh produce. It’s fun to pass a counter over them because some farms use a fertilizer that is slightly radioactive.
No it doesn’t. The soeks looks cheap.
Will an EMP from a nuke destroy it?
Lol ! I love your "Radiation Source" !
My wife saw it one day. Sadly it did not surprise her one bit...
I feel the need to repeat what I've heard elsewhere, but I've been informed that it may not measure Alpha particles.
At about 49 seconds into the video you mentioned that you planned to publish some sort of info about ion detectors, (possible drawbacks of that method of detection?). I searched your channel for that video, but can't seem to find it. Maybe I was using the wrong search criteria? Anyway, I'm very interested in hearing what you have to say in that video. If you could point me in the right direction, I would be eternally grateful. 😁
Does this have one or two GM tubes?
I used Dosimeter from USSR in early 90s that showed radiation even on tires after ride...
6:00 Heh, yeah, probably not good a good idea to eat the plate itself, but Thunderfoot is eating his food from a fiesta plate, he's a bit of a rebel. 😸
i just bought a 500+ version mine had none od the stickers on the manual or box like yours. It was a total pain in the ass to get it online and im getting normal between 0.02 and 0.24. left it on for the past day and a half and its come down significantly.
Can i ask why is it that the levels fluctuate so much, airflow? would of loved a soecks one but they are too pricey here in aus.
By pluging it in the PC you can acces to all your datas
Which affordable all radiation enabled device for $200 is best? I'm tired of watching way to long videos trying to find out. Thanks
What is the difference between the 300 and 320?
Can the battery be charged inside of the device?
Yes, there is a USB port on the side that you charge it with.
Lovely character, almost an enlightened voice 💮🐧🌄🐧💮 Thank You for the Observed! 😁
I just got this one. Be default it displays CPM. How do you switch it to uSv/h?
Arrow up changes the display method.
Will it still work after an EMP?
It will if you seal them away in a Mylar bag or faraday case
Keep it in the microwave oven when not in use haha
I find it a bit odd they're saying 1mSv/hour is dangerous, when I was making a classifier to predict long-term survivability and cancer risk assessment based on dosage I had to set the lowest limit to 250mSv because there was so few cancer patients or persons who died from that low-level exposure it would not have been useful.
what is the difference between dosimeter and emf meter?
i want to detect uranium in sevets which meter should i buy?
Dosimeters measure radiation from nuclear decay, mostly in micro-Sv/h. You should get a dosimeter for radiation measurement such as beta-particle decay, background radiation, ... EMF meters measure electromagnetic waves, which has nothing to do with radiation. They won't do a thing near uranium.
Hello, I have a question. I live in japan in the south, but im moving to the north with my family because of a new job. I want to purchase a geiger counter, I don't have a huge amount of money, some maybe something like in the video would be good. is this available on amazon? I cannot seem to find it. or can I order it to japan from pcbway?
Buy the GMC-300E Geiger Counter here: amzn.to/3ebupqj
will this scan the air?
Yes
Just curious, what did you pick up on your geiger counter readings from Fukushima? I just bought a geiger counter and I have been using it for the last day. I pick up 0.09-0.16 usv/h (avg 16CPM) where I live in WNY. Thank you!
background doubled on days with jetsream just right and precipitation falling. That was years ago
@@MkmeOrg Thank you so much. I also went through Fukushima. I was wondering the background radiation was back then (2011-2014). I know it's got to be some serious radiation to cause the counter to move. I have my alarm set at 35 where I live and I've only hit that number 4x since I turned the GQ GMC 500+ on 4 days ago. I tested a gutter that burned my foot, a desk I know sat through Fukushima and WIPP radiation, and a shelf and came up with nothing. In all instances when background CPM hit 35 (max 41), I tasted metal in the air. The metal is dangerous. I called the state representative, assembly men, EPA, and water company about it back then. EPA hung up on me and gave me the run around on the phone when I tried to get the radiation standards lowered for water.
... Does your counter go up when cars drive by?
@@MkmeOrg PS: I still don't know what you mean by, "double background radiation."
Was the CPM 40, then? Or maybe it was 100!? Normal background radiation goes up to 50!
@@MkmeOrg I saw a comment from a guy on a video talking about Japan's radioactive seaweed. The guy who commented said he lived in Denver, CO and he claimed to have detected 200CPM from rainfall in that location in 2011!
@@johnnychronic222 the reason why that person detected so much was because of radon washout, where radon rises up from the ground and mixes with water vapor and when it rains you can get a few thousand counts per minute with a pancake detector. There was and still is a very tiny amount cesium-137 (nuclear fallout essentially) in water but it’s so low it doesn’t pose much of a threat. But yeah radon washout is a phenomenon that has been going on forever. Just informing people :)
Is it true that this would be useless in a fallout situation due to it being over saturated?
Maybe could look at the upper limit the instrument could measure. Some warns the reading has saturated while some just display 00.00.
Quick question, does above device pick up smart meters, cell towers, and wifi? Thank you.
Those would be RF... As for detecting those- the answer is yes they are around you. No you dont need any device to detect them. No- they wont hurt you. If you want to receive any of them- SDR on ~900mhz for smart meters, SDR on 2.4ghz and 5.8ghz for wifi but why bother. Yep they are there.
@@MkmeOrg I appreciate the feedback. How do feel about the 5G towers? for example, the unit across the street has a 5G tower near their balcony. Is that too close?
*you
I would not be concerned. You already have a 2.4 and 5.8 ghz transceiver in your house and a cellphone parked against your brain while you talk on it. Dont use the antenna for a bedtime pillow and you will be fine.
@@MkmeOrg Thank you.
"Las Baterias no Sirven" Batterys are dead. Nice video I learned about that fiesta ware thing, Incredible that people were actually consuming food laced with that stuff.
Not really, now you're consuming BPA and petrochemicals.... all by design
@@projectile8228 True.
and by design you mean designed to maximise profits.
I bought it year agos and its prety a good dosimeter for begining
Argos? You got it from argos?
Really want to test this out where I work. Work with laser every day on work, and are really interested to find out if that makes radioactive particles. Also found out, we got a shipment of Strontium that I read some bad shit about. Probably I mixed something together. But strontium-90 is not something to mess around with.
Curious of what you find.
You found anything yet?
How much do they charge for that software?
Which soeks model is this? Thanks
ruclips.net/video/vI8kX1n-_vg/видео.html&ab_channel=MKmeLab
That thing is about 800-1.00$ at the moment!
The greater than and lower (less) than symbols are backward- on the safety reference placard. Seems that whomever produced the document did not pay attention to their math studies in elementary school.
None of those readings are actually alarming regardless of the alarms 😆. But if you did grind that up and eat it it would only be 87mSv per year. But you would poop most of it out in 24 hrs and what would be left would be mostly negligible. Radium is the one to watch out for it likes to replace calcium. That said not all the radium girls did end up with cancer and they ingested insane amounts. The danger of radiation is very hyped and I would eat vegetables grown in Fukushima, I would live there, I would drink treated water from the holding pond. Remember burnt food, wd40, Bondo, super glue, and inner tubes all cause cancer. The odd of getting cancer in Fukushima are less than that of dieing in the needlessly stressful evacuation proceedings.
Maybe America should drop a hydrogen bomb on Japan.
Radioactive! DANGER! on the paper that protects you from a 1950s fiestaware shatter.
Dish ware huh i think ill buy one of these
7.5μSv/h...not great, not terrible ;)
Its actually quite a lot. Average dose per hour in Europe is 0,34 μSv/h and in US 0,74 μSv/h.
Good job
Anyone else here after watching the show Chernobyl? 😂
Will an EMP from a nuke destroy its electronics?
you cant actually test these geiger counter this way as these counters are not made to give a dose rate reading at the contact : the geometry of the geiger tube isnt at all made to give an accurate measure this way. These geiger counter are made mostly to measure the ambiant radiation level and also to detect radioactivity of an object and tell wether or not its radioactivity is high or low. . The dose rate read at the contact is always inaccurate and a very rough estimate . At 10-20cm it improves as the field of radiation becomes more even. Keep that in mind when you buy these geiger counters for the public.
Does anyone live in southern Utah and have one of these. Moving soon and worried about levels due to test bombings in the 50’s. Thanks.
I have read 0.18 to 0.25 mili roentgens per hour at home
really concerning would be if it got to milliSieverts
You should relabel it as "Inexpensive" since nothing about is cheap.
6:16 how can you find out why? what if you can't? makes no sense to me.
Leave...
@@MkmeOrg yeah, sure but how do you figure out what is wrong?
LOL okee dokee. Best not buy one.
Is SOEKS=Russian made one better ?
I would have to agree that the Russian detectors are quite impressive 😀
He said wax an wane :)
Sorry but the GMC-300E is way too slow to reach equilibrium and doesn't produce consistent readings.
Software update is available. Makes it quicker
nobody The Russians we know a thing or two because we saw a thing or two.
You didn't calibrate it.
You didn't do the hokey-pokey...
It goes clickity click I want it!
Astoundingly shoddy plastic body builds on these expensive tools.WHY?
Thumbs down for being advertiser friendly. Boo!
HUH?
"yeah so cheap just 89 dollars"
Provide an alternative then...
$100 is a BARGAIN..........go find something cheaper....maybe move out of mommies basement!