Bob, N7XY wrote: It's been argued here for over 200 years and was closer to happening 20-30 years ago than presently. Some military contracts in the 1970s and 80s actually called for the drawings to be metric (this was later dropped). Oh well, I guess the expense of two sets of wrenches, etc., isn't all that bad (anyone for Whitworth?)
------------------------------------------------------------- Metric was adopted by the US Government as the *standard* system of weights and measures in the USA in the 1800's. What Congress failed to do back then was *require* its use. As Bob notes, they tried to mandate it a few years ago, based on the billions of US$ it'd save us every year, but there was darn near a revolt protesting it. So Metric comes to us Yanks by stealth. We used to buy a quart of a soft drink, not it's a litre (or liter) more often than not, if one looks at the fine print. We used to buy a pound of something, now we get 0.45 kg according to the package, and so on. In the mean time, you can often find me in the CW portion of the 40 met...er...the 1570.8 inch band. Or should it be the 43.74 yard band? Ron AC7AC -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.12.1/135 - Release Date: 10/15/2005 _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
