r/Radiacode

Hi folks,

What’s the real serious purpose of RadiaCode Zero?

I mean, what does the device actually do 100% efficiently?

This isn't just me, is it? I have tried to access from both a PC, and from my android phone, to no avail. Anyone have a clue if the website is down, or it is just on my end somehow?

After careful consideration, decided to replace the RC102 & RC103 with a couple of RC110s. Also added another Zero to go in my iPad Mini bag (but had to upsize the bag for everything to fit).

So now....

RC103G & a Zero in my iPad Mini shoulder bag

RC110 & a Zero in my HP Laptop backpack

RC110 & a Zero in my iPad Pro backpack

Giving the RC103 & accessories to one of my daughters for her birthday.

Trying to find a suitable home for the RC102 & accessories as well.

Chance find (I was in the wrong place).

I just got my radiacode 102 and was checking stuff around my room. I noticed an old ww2 era radio I have, a BC-603. It appears like the buttons have radium as my radiacode picked up around 54 usv/h maximum. It was heavily dependent on what angle I held it at. The levels quickly fell off only a few inches away. Does anybody know if there is a high risk here if so, what I should do? I’ve had this radio for years but l really don’t have an attachment to it now I want to get rid of it. Is there any other setting or way I can use the radiacode to better assess the risk here?

There’s a travelling international market visiting my city in Finland today. Saw a stall selling pretty stones and decided to take a closer look.

Asked the seller if I can search with my 103 and found this piece of charoite. Looks like it has some thorium.

The remains of electrostatically charged balloon after collecting Rn-222 progeny for an hour. The device is Rdiacode 103G.

Pls help ty

I'm enjoying my new Radiacode 110 and have been using it frequently over the last few weeks and want to try to understand it a bit more. In this image, I am comparing two background samples from what I consider the same location and they are coming out a bit different.

In the attached view, the green background was taken with the Radiacode on my desk to my left about 2 feet away from my keyboard facing down. The current spectrum is right behind my keyboard, also facing down and the same 2 feet from the original location. As you can see, they are roughly the same but also different even though I have not let the current sample go on as long as the first yet.

I'm just wondering why they are different. There are peaks at locations that correspond to the previous reading but there are also other new points that don't quite correspond. Also, a little tough to see in the small image, there's a valley at about 1931 keV in the new data that wasn't evident in the previous background. Maybe it just hasn't detected that yet?

Sure, they definitely won't be IDENTICAL and I understand that but I just see some obvious differences that I would think shouldn't necessarily be so pronounced. Do I just need to let the current sample go the same number of hours/days as the original and they'll eventually even out closer together? Or is the land under my desk that different within a 2 foot radius?

I'd appreciate some thoughts on interpreting my background a bit.

Hello there! Today I had to get a dental x-ray, and obviously I took my Radiacode with me.

I was surprised by the amount of radiation detected by the device, or in other words, how much was scattering from the x-ray machine. I always assumed they were designed to produce a very precise and localized beam with minimal "leakage." The Radiacode was in my pocket at waist level.

In the image, the first peaks (from left to center) were detected in the waiting room. The latest peaks (from center do right) were from my x-ray exam.

Are these readings normal for that kind of exam?

Czech Autunite / Meta-Autunite / Torbernite site.

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During a run with my Radiacode 102 at the Komora sports area in Tábor, Czech Republic, I noticed something unusual.
The entire area was consistently showing about +10 CPS above the surrounding environment, and at one spot I measured up to 0.26 µSv/h.
What makes it interesting is that this was not just a tiny hotspot. The elevated readings covered a relatively large modified terrain area.

Here is the Radiaverse map segment:
Radiaverse map location

My first thought is that the terrain may have been landscaped using imported material with naturally elevated radioactivity, possibly crushed granite, industrial aggregate, or soil containing more uranium/thorium-bearing minerals than the local background.

The surrounding area is noticeably lower, so the transition is quite visible.

Has anyone else found large “artificial” elevated background zones around sports fields, parking lots, or landscaped public areas?

Found some Uranium Glaze painted dishes at an antique shop!
Used a Radiacode 103.

I was bored and realised my radiacode 110 isn’t doing anything so I slapped together this monstrosity of unreliability.

I wanted to see if I could see even the slightest amount of X-ray fluorescence specifically from tin (solder which is 40% tin in my case) so I very quickly placed as much tin around the radiacode crystal and placed the whole thing on a big piece of uraninite (giving roughly 300usv/h and 16kcps on contact). As you can see on the second picture there is a slight increase around the expected fluorescence peak and it is about 600 counts above the nearest channel which is at a higher energy.

I have no idea if this is an actual result or just luck but i will attempt to replicate this with a much more thought through setup and shielding between the uraninite and the detector because not it sees both the X-rays and the gammas fro the uraninite. I don’t expect good results as the radiacode is not even close to precise enough to do this but it is still interesting especially if I can replicate this for other elements.