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The most impressive things I remember were the Fire Power Demonstrations held at Battlesbury Bowel here in the UK. They were live firing demonstrations primarily put on for VIPs but us minions got to watch as well... They took place on the flattish floor of a valley with the demo troops...

Yes, I am in the UK, North Wales to be precise... Age of Finds is all relative...if I am correct, the use of metal was something the Europeans introduced, so unfortunately that generally benchmarks the oldest likely Finds .. Would be interpreted to see a pic of your seal...Have never found one...

Due to a bad dose of flu followed by a lingering chest infection, yesterday was the first time I managed to get out detecting this year. It was with a local FB detecting group and a real red letter outing with a range of finds from Roman (lots of Roman) through medieval to Tudor hammereds...

That's certainly a plus as I already have the 6" and 15" coils for the 800...

Considering the capsule is used in mining, all this business about "security concerns" and "secret locations" seems a bit much?

Cheers that's for that! I have my eye on the Manticore, but it's sounds like the 900 is worth considering also...I presume the 800 coils are not compatible with the 900?

Excellent result! Hopefully the lessons learned will be put in place in case a similar event occurs in the future...Although it shouldn't have been lost in the first place Rio's response seems to be pretty good as well...

Surely the most famous case of that was during the sinking of the Titanic, when the captain of the Californian failed to respond to rockets fired from the Titanic....

Do you guys think this incident will result in the tightening of laws surrounding the transport of radioactive items?

Sadly we have the same halfwits added to which it seems to be relatively easy to get overly powerful illegal versions, and I can understand why the Police are wary about people who carry them... Drones were in danger of going the same way following a week or so of disruption caused to Heathrow...

It is going the same way in the UK..Under a certain power, lasers are legal to have, but there are specific offences if you shine one at an aircraft ect...I would imagine that if you were caught carrying one in your pocket while out and about in town, the Police would give you a real hard time...

A couple of miles from where I live, there is a park where the teenagers gather of an evening and do what ever teenagers do. It a few of them have bought some green laser pointers as every so often, I can see one, two or three beams shining skyward after dark. I am not sure if these are legal...

I remember seeing proposed design for a Yank recce vehicle for the American military...It was a hybrid diesel electric...the design utilised 4 small electric motors mounted on the road wheels which basically done away with all the regular transmission components. The diesel motor was designed to...

Yes, I suspect your right....I wonder how far a smallish detector could pick up the radiation? I am thinking scanning with drones might be the way to go? You would need a fair few though if you wanted to keep two or three in the air constantly....if you could cover 10km a day, that would equate...

In what way?

Not sure they should be looking for a radio active capsule on a "chances are" basis??? Would have thought they would jury rigged some detectors on booms or similar and fitted them to vehicles so three or so vehicles could scan the whole width of the carriage way? However they do it, I don't...

Even stranger when you consider they are only check either side of the crash barrier...What about the rest of the road?

Many (many) years ago, I used to be a Company Signaller when I was in the Army Reserves. I can't believe how complex it is in the Ham world...I miss building antennas and tuning a set to get the best results, it was almost a dark art as much as a science....

Na...some bloke living off grid in the middle of the outback is working on his new nuclear powered beer fridge as we speak!😀

I wonder how much the pellet weighed? The source in Brazil was about 93grams, so I suspect it was substantially larger than the lost pellet...Of course the relative weights alone are probably not a true guide to how they compare radiation wise....