{"id":9413,"date":"2009-06-02T06:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T20:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/06\/02\/alan-yates-making-x-rays-from-rectifier-tubes\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T02:29:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T16:29:01","slug":"alan-yates-making-x-rays-from-rectifier-tubes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/06\/02\/alan-yates-making-x-rays-from-rectifier-tubes\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Yates Making X-Rays from Rectifier Tubes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Vk2zay2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 232px; height: 229px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Vk2zay2.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342759749800532658\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Anytime you find yourself writing a sentence like this&#8230;<br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-weight: bold;\">&#8220;At only 20-30 kV and a few hundred uA in cold-cathode mode the x-ray radiation pours out, making the end-window Geiger counter scream from more than a meter away.<\/span>&#8220;<br \/>&#8230; perhaps some alarm bells should be going off.<\/p>\n<p>Our friend Alan, VK2ZAY, has been busy in the lab, generating X-Rays from old 2X2 rectifier tubes. This reminds me of one of the articles in the wonderful C.L. Strong book, &#8220;The Amateur Scientist.&#8221; Check it out: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vk2zay.net\/article\/222\"> http:\/\/www.vk2zay.net\/article\/222<br \/><\/a><br \/>Hey Alan, can you make us up some of those X-Ray glasses that they always advertised in the backs of magazines? As a teenager, I somehow always wanted one of those&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhLIrZ0nJxYaj1Tg7CRy-33d5Ir_ifOyivrxPEYEximRcTtB2nqptQ_W6Bi4QHgQC188pCl1d69IBXtLty3Dv9L5o-pchD48jjrUPy9T27z_vQsXUiqbks9zikFJAB4XxLml1n3593yDHI\/s1600-h\/lrg_xray_specs.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 297px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/lrg_xray_specs.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342622900843332418\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anytime you find yourself writing a sentence like this&#8230;&#8220;At only 20-30 kV and a few hundred uA in cold-cathode mode the x-ray radiation pours out, making the end-window Geiger counter scream from more than a meter away.&#8220;&#8230; perhaps some alarm bells should be going off. Our friend Alan, VK2ZAY, has been busy in the lab, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/06\/02\/alan-yates-making-x-rays-from-rectifier-tubes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Alan Yates Making X-Rays from Rectifier Tubes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9415,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9413\/revisions\/9415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}