On Jun 11, 2005, at 5:12 PM, John R. Lonigro wrote:
So if the ARRL would say to use an antenna 10.52 meters long, the first
thing most hams would have to do is convert to feet. So why not
specify it in feet to start with? It's inconsistent, but sometimes
handy to mix units.
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Mixing units is not always benign.
"September 1999: NASA lost a $125 million Mars orbiter because a
Lockheed Martin engineering team used English units of measurement
while the agency's team used the more conventional metric system for a
key spacecraft operation..... "
73 - Steve WB6RSE
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