X-ray

[rhalld38]

I have not flown in several years and I have read past posts about bringing a scanner to the airport but one question I did not see, if I have my scanner in my carry-on bag does TSA run the bag through the x-ray machine or do they search the carry-on? And if it does go through the x-ray with the scanner in the bag would the x-ray hurt the scanner? Like I said I have not flown in several years and this will be the first time I will fly with a scanner.

 

[N_Jay]

No worrries.

 

[rhalld38]

No worrries.

Thanks for the reply.

 

[K8TEK]

X-raying is fine for every other electrical device, but it will kill the scanner. I would be more worried about a laptop then a scanner and I have yet to hear of an x-ray killing a laptop.

 

[trace1]

You may or may not be asked to turn your scanner ON though...

 

[KE7JFF]

TSA actually when they took over phased out any airports in the US that used x-ray machines (there was like 3 left) and instead uses CTX machines which are tottally different.

 

[N_Jay]

You may or may not be asked to turn your scanner ON though...

Doubtful, but possible.

 

[N_Jay]

TSA actually when they took over phased out any airports in the US that used x-ray machines (there was like 3 left) and instead uses CTX machines which are tottally different.

Excuse me?

EDIT:

I just realized some might not grasp the meaning of my comment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CTX_(explosive-detection_device)

 

[sigint1]

TSA actually when they took over phased out any airports in the US that used x-ray machines (there was like 3 left) and instead uses CTX machines which are tottally different.

They have not phased out x-ray machines - CTX machines are a combination of a CT scanner and X-ray and are used to screen checked baggage - X-ray machines are used at the checkpoint for screening carry-on items. Here at Reno international Airport they are the same X-ray machines that we installed about 4 years before 9/11. CTX machines can damage camera film so if you are using film (like 35 mm camera film) then you should put it in your carry-on bags - the regular x-ray will not damage most film.

I have flown several times with my hand held scanner and TSA hasn't even given it a second look - only thing they ever looked at was my magnetic base GPS antenna.

 

[shaft]

I tend to take my 396 and the Vx7-R with me when I fly and they travel in the middle compartment of my laptop backpack, which I carry-on. Only once this past year did they take a second look, they were more concerned with the various cables I had in the same compartment then they were with the radio and scanner.

 

[N_Jay]

Put real film in a lead bag or ask for hand inspection.
If you are still using film, you are probably picky enough that you don't want ANY degradation from even low level x-rays.

 

[N_Jay]

. . CTX machines are a combination of a CT scanner and X-ray and are used to screen checked baggage . ..

All true, except for leaving the impression that a CT is NOT an X-ray.

It is an X-ray, just computer aided presentation.

 

[sigint1]

All true, except for leaving the impression that a CT is NOT an X-ray.

It is an X-ray, just computer aided presentation.

I don't think I left that impression - if I did I apologize, but I didn't say that it was NOT an x-ray - If you read my post again I said it was a combination of a CT scanner AND X-ray - I was just trying to put it in simple terms that most people had a chance of understanding. The main point I was trying to make was that the regular x-ray machines have NOT been phased out and that the x-ray machines used to screen carry on items at the screening checkpoints and the CTX X-ray machine used to screen checked or hold baggage are two different types of machines employing two different technologies.

PS: It has aslo dawned on me that I have strayed into an area that is most likely off topic for this group - I apologize for straying afield and this will be my last post concerning this topic - joe

 

[Lowa2]

For baggage that you check at the ticket counter, everything goes though a CT machine. Your carry on baggage goes through a conventional xray machine. I know, I work on them.

 

[KE7JFF]

I'm talking the OLD school X-ray machines; the ones that were basically giant dental x-ray machines that were put in place after DB Cooper. Those ones are long gone; but some very small airports post-9/11 but pre-TSA had them still. CTX scanners are what you said, CT + X-ray but it uses the x-ray at a much lower dose because it does image processing more efficiently.

CTX scanners actually don't harm film up to ISO 3200, but you can request a hand inspection of film if you want to under TSA (and CATSA) regulations if you chose too.

 

[dagwag77]

I've taken motorola radios though TSA security all the time. Never hurt XTS2500 or HT1250s....so I think a scanner will be fine. They've never even seem to care or ask any questions...

 

[poltergeisty]

No worrries.

x2! The lappy is fine as well.

 

[N_Jay]

I don't think I left that impression - if I did I apologize, but I didn't say that it was NOT an x-ray - If you read my post again I said it was a combination of a CT scanner AND X-ray - I was just trying to put it in simple terms that most people had a chance of understanding.

Not to nit-pic, but you said "it was a combination of a CT scanner AND X-ray". My point is a CT IS an X-ray. So it is NOT two technologies, it is one technology, X-Rays, that are computer enhanced.

 

[smason]

X-raying is fine for every other electrical device, but it will kill the scanner. I would be more worried about a laptop then a scanner and I have yet to hear of an x-ray killing a laptop.

Please elaborate, how exactly would it kill the scanner?

 

[N_Jay]

Please elaborate, how exactly would it kill the scanner?

Sarcasm. (and not well done)