In the Elecraft manuals and other technical writing I stick with the S.I.
standard notation. You can find details on line here;

http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/units.html

The units are on that page and click on the link at the bottom for the
prefixes. 

73, Ron AC7AC

-----Original Message-----
From: Elecraft [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Phil
Kane
Sent: Monday, November 2, 2015 5:07 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] 10 mHZ external reference VS the K3S's
optionalKTCXO3-1

On 11/2/2015 4:57 PM, Bayard Coolidge, N1HO via Elecraft wrote:

> (And, to be even more inane, the correct abbreviation is "MHz."
> -capital M for Mega, capital H/lower case Z for Hertz, since it's 
> aunit named for a person, and is therefore capitalized.


Notwithstanding that the accepted abbreviation for 1000 Hz is kHz -
lower-case k.  I didn't learn that in engineering school because the Hertz
hadn't been adopted yet.

I love working with standards because there are so many of them to choose
from.  :)

73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane
Elecraft K2/100   s/n 5402

>From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest
Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon

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