When I started in the 1950s, we tuned kilocycles and announced Abel, Baker, Charlie, Dog, Easy, Fox.
A thousand was M, a million was MM, and Greek was a foreign language. Does current still flow from + to - in a circuit? If not, then most of my early electronics training was fanciful and my Elmers would be embarrassed were they not SK. Thanks for the NIST link. — Marc W8SDG > On Nov 3, 2015, at 12:34 PM, Phil Kane <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 11/2/2015 8:19 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote: >> n 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. > > That validates my posting that k = 1000 while M = 1,000,000 > > 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane > Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402 > > From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest > Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
