[aprssig] [ui-view] APRS Radiation sensor

[Bernard Van Haecke]

Hi

Not sure the OH3NWQ station is reporting real values and in what unit.  It
seems to be off by a factor of 1000x.

KI6TSF-8 started reporting in the X123 format in nS/hr.

Note: the APRS spec should be corrected to use nS/hr instead of nS.  nS is a
unit of _accumulated_ dose,
not dose rate.  It's like reporting wind speed in meters instead of
m/s.  Counters do report levels in dose rate
i.e. unit/hr  (extrapolated to the hour, usually, using much smaller
sampling windows).

The mistake of reporting numbers in Sieverts instead of Sieverts/hr (or
minute, etc...) can be heard in the
press over and over again.

Bernard KI6TSF


On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr) <
ldeffenb at homeside.to> wrote:

>  Thank you Russ.  APRSISCE/32 reports the current Radiation from OH3NWQ as
> 134000.000000nanosieverts.  Obviously I need to work on my display a bit!
>
>
> Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Author of APRSISCE for Windows Mobile and Win32
>
>
>
> On 3/25/2011 2:39 PM, Russ Chadwick wrote:
>
> On 7:59 PM, Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr) wrote:
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> Also, is there any station yet transmitting the Xnns under either a weather
> (any _) or Radiation Detector (RH) symbol?
>
> Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Author of APRSISCE for Windows Mobile and Win32
>
>
>
>
> This station is the first and it started between 11:00 and 12:00 MDT on
> Friday.
>
> http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/find.cgi?call=OH3NWQ
>
> However, no change in the reported rad value seen yet over several
> packets.  However, there is changing levels on his web page.
>
> Russ  KB0TVJ
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