Hello From Vancouver Island

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Brian Gage
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Joined: Wed Dec 14, 2011 8:54 pm
Location: Duncan, B.C. Canada

Hello From Vancouver Island

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Greetings. My name is Brian, I'm 64, totally blind, using a screen reader. I type, it talks. The Fukishima disaster re-kindled my cold war fears, and dormant interests in the realms of nuclear physics. After much web crawling and studying about Geiger counters, I obtained my first ever radiation survey meter in September (Monitor 4EC). My computer does the talking, so I didn't need a fancy counter. Sifting the web for knowledge (quite the task), I came across the fusor Forum and old teenage interests in plasma physics took hold. Doug and others from the Fusor Forum have been a great help when it comes to interpreting visuals... diagrams, circuits, shapes of fusors, and many other such questions.
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Doug Coulter
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Welcome Brian. It must take a lot of effort to do this, I'm impressed! Hope our pages help you - we get wordy at times, and use a lot of pix. Some of the videos might still be good, since they have sound.
Posting as just me, not as the forum owner. Everything I say is "in my opinion" and YMMV -- which should go for everyone without saying.
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Starfire
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Joined: Thu Aug 05, 2010 4:26 pm
Location: North Ireland

Re: Hello From Vancouver Island

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Hi Brian and welcome from Ireland - your still a kid, if a curious one :D
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