Re: [Elecraft] [Way (OT)] Pedantic comment about metric usage
No. 14 is wrong, of course. One million microphones is one phone, and a million phones is a megaphone. Victor 4X6GP > On 31 Jul 2019, at 0:01, Jim KO5V wrote: > > These are wonderful, but I didn't see the millihelen: the quantity of face > required to launch only one ship. > > I really liked #17:, two kilomockingbirds... > > 73, Jim > > "Like these?: > > 1. Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter = Eskimo Pi > > 2. 2000 pounds of Chinese soup = Won ton > > 3. 1 millionth of a mouthwash = 1 microscope > > 4. Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement = 1 > bananosecond > > 5. Weight an evangelist carries with God = 1 billigram > > 6. Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour = > Knotfurlong > > 7. 364.25 days of drinking low calorie beer = 1 Lite year > > 8. 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Serling > > 9. Half a large intestine = 1 semicolon > > 10. 1,000,000 aches = 1 megahurtz > > 11. Basic unit of laryngitis - 1 hoarsepower > > 12. Shortest distance between two jokes - a straight line > > 13. 453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake > > 14. 1 million microphones = 1 megaphone > > 15. 1 million bicycles = 1 megacycles > > 16. 365.25 days = 1 unicycle > > 17. 2000 mockingbirds = two kilomockingbirds > > 18. 10 cards = 1 decacard > > 19. 52 cards = 1 deckacard > > 20. 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 fig Newton > > 21. 1000 grams of wet socks = 1 literhosen > > 22. 1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche > > 23. 1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin > > 24. 10 rations = 1 decaration > > 25. 100 rations = 1 C-ration > > 26. 2 monograms = 1 diagram > > 27. 8 nickels = 2 paradigms > > 28. 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University > Hospital = 1 I.V. League" > __ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to k2vco@gmail.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] [Way (OT)] Pedantic comment about metric usage
On 7/30/2019 12:59 PM, Fred Jensen wrote: > Yep, KMcs. Even after Hz and it's metric extensions came along, those > who remember when the Holy Frequency was the world's party line still > used the more reverent Kcs to refer to it. [:-) Wrong! It's 500kc (no "s", no space) - so sez Great Father Dillman. I gave up trying to convert him to the 21st Century. He also won't change his local ruling about who he will let operate his Coast station to conform to the FCC's rules. 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:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] [Way (OT)] Pedantic comment about metric usage
On 7/30/2019 9:52 AM, Charlie T wrote: > If a megameter is 1000 kilometers, what is a trigometer ? Something you use before you learn calculus??? 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:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] [Way (OT)] Pedantic comment about metric usage
Think more long term. Velocity in Mega-parsecs per millennia. Kevin. KD5ONS - On 7/30/19 5:14 PM, hawley, charles j jr wrote: Hey! That’s my choice, Furlongs/Fortnight... Chuck Jack Hawley KE9UW Sent from my iPhone, cjack On Jul 30, 2019, at 3:26 PM, rich hurd WC3T wrote: At the risk of arousing Eric’s ire I tender the unit of measure in the most obscure terms. Velocity in furlongs/fortnight, for example. Hey, I’m on vacation. On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 15:59 Fred Jensen wrote: Yep, KMcs. Even after Hz and it's metric extensions came along, those who remember when the Holy Frequency was the world's party line still used the more reverent Kcs to refer to it. [:-) 73, Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW Sparks NV DM09dn Washoe County On 7/30/2019 8:56 AM, Randy Farmer wrote: Oh, my. Does anyone remember "kilo-megacycles"? Guess we got that one fixed. 73... Randy, W8FN __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to r...@wc3t.us -- 72, Rich Hurd / WC3T / DMR: 3142737 Northampton County RACES, EPA-ARRL Public Information Officer for Scouting Latitude: 40.761621 Longitude: -75.288988 (40°45.68' N 75°17.33' W) Grid: *FN20is* __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to c-haw...@illinois.edu __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to kev...@coho.net __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] [Way (OT)] Pedantic comment about metric usage
Hey! That’s my choice, Furlongs/Fortnight... Chuck Jack Hawley KE9UW Sent from my iPhone, cjack > On Jul 30, 2019, at 3:26 PM, rich hurd WC3T wrote: > > At the risk of arousing Eric’s ire I tender the unit of measure in the most > obscure terms. Velocity in furlongs/fortnight, for example. > > Hey, I’m on vacation. > >> On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 15:59 Fred Jensen wrote: >> >> Yep, KMcs. Even after Hz and it's metric extensions came along, those >> who remember when the Holy Frequency was the world's party line still >> used the more reverent Kcs to refer to it. [:-) >> >> 73, >> Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW >> Sparks NV DM09dn >> Washoe County >> >>> On 7/30/2019 8:56 AM, Randy Farmer wrote: >>> Oh, my. Does anyone remember "kilo-megacycles"? Guess we got that one >>> fixed. >>> >>> 73... >>> Randy, W8FN >> >> __ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> Message delivered to r...@wc3t.us > > -- > 72, > Rich Hurd / WC3T / DMR: 3142737 > Northampton County RACES, EPA-ARRL Public Information Officer for Scouting > Latitude: 40.761621 Longitude: -75.288988 (40°45.68' N 75°17.33' W) Grid: > *FN20is* > __ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to c-haw...@illinois.edu __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] [Way (OT)] Pedantic comment about metric usage
Yes, but a 8300mah battery just seems so much bigger than an 8.3 ah battery t those t used to thinking in metric. (Or thinking at all) Jim Rhodes K0XU On Tue, Jul 30, 2019, 10:48 Bill Frantz wrote: > Since I'm studying to be a curmudgeon... :-) > > A recent post mentioned a 8300mAh battery*. That should have > been written as an 8.3AH battery. Also we should be dealing in > bels, not decibels, megameters instead of thousands of > kilometers etc. > > 73 Bill AE6JV > > * Reference deleted to protect the guilty. > > --- > Bill Frantz| Privacy is dead, get over| Periwinkle > (408)356-8506 | it. | 16345 > Englewood Ave > www.pwpconsult.com | - Scott McNealy | Los Gatos, > CA 95032 > > __ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to jimk...@gmail.com > __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] [Way (OT)] Pedantic comment about metric usage
Correct, except when kilomegacycles per second was in vogue [and giga apparently had yet to become popular], it was abbreviated KMcs. Technically, it should probably have been KMcps, which I seem to remember it sometimes was. Kilo in that era was upper case, as in 500 Kcs. Then again the abbreviation Kcs was sometimes itself abbreviated to Kc. All of this, and the ever popular "Colpitts Oscillator Question" could be found on the FCC license exams of the day. It's similar for capacitors. In that era, they were mainly mf for microfarads [10^-6] or mmf for micromicrofarads [10^-12]. I do not remember any that were kmf [kilomicrofarads - 10^3 mf]. No wonder we in the USA are going metric inch by inch... 73, Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW Sparks NV DM09dn Washoe County On 7/30/2019 1:49 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote: Skip, The proper way to represent units with kilo (10 exp 3) in it is with a lower case "k". "m" stands for milli (10 exp -3) while "M" stands for Mega (10 exp 6). Hz is capitalized because it is a man's name - Hertz. 73, Don W3FPR __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] [Way (OT)] Pedantic comment about metric usage
These are wonderful, but I didn't see the millihelen: the quantity of face required to launch only one ship. I really liked #17:, two kilomockingbirds... 73, Jim "Like these?: 1. Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter = Eskimo Pi 2. 2000 pounds of Chinese soup = Won ton 3. 1 millionth of a mouthwash = 1 microscope 4. Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement = 1 bananosecond 5. Weight an evangelist carries with God = 1 billigram 6. Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour = Knotfurlong 7. 364.25 days of drinking low calorie beer = 1 Lite year 8. 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Serling 9. Half a large intestine = 1 semicolon 10. 1,000,000 aches = 1 megahurtz 11. Basic unit of laryngitis - 1 hoarsepower 12. Shortest distance between two jokes - a straight line 13. 453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake 14. 1 million microphones = 1 megaphone 15. 1 million bicycles = 1 megacycles 16. 365.25 days = 1 unicycle 17. 2000 mockingbirds = two kilomockingbirds 18. 10 cards = 1 decacard 19. 52 cards = 1 deckacard 20. 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 fig Newton 21. 1000 grams of wet socks = 1 literhosen 22. 1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche 23. 1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin 24. 10 rations = 1 decaration 25. 100 rations = 1 C-ration 26. 2 monograms = 1 diagram 27. 8 nickels = 2 paradigms 28. 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital = 1 I.V. League" __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] [Way (OT)] Pedantic comment about metric usage
Skip, The proper way to represent units with kilo (10 exp 3) in it is with a lower case "k". "m" stands for milli (10 exp -3) while "M" stands for Mega (10 exp 6). Hz is capitalized because it is a man's name - Hertz. 73, Don W3FPR On 7/30/2019 3:59 PM, Fred Jensen wrote: Yep, KMcs. Even after Hz and it's metric extensions came along, those who remember when the Holy Frequency was the world's party line still used the more reverent Kcs to refer to it. [:-) __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] [Way (OT)] Pedantic comment about metric usage
>At the risk of arousing Eric’s ire I tender the unit of measure in the most >obscure terms. Velocity in furlongs/fortnight, for example. Like these?: 1. Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter = Eskimo Pi 2. 2000 pounds of Chinese soup = Won ton 3. 1 millionth of a mouthwash = 1 microscope 4. Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement = 1 bananosecond 5. Weight an evangelist carries with God = 1 billigram 6. Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour = Knotfurlong 7. 364.25 days of drinking low calorie beer = 1 Lite year 8. 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Serling 9. Half a large intestine = 1 semicolon 10. 1,000,000 aches = 1 megahurtz 11. Basic unit of laryngitis - 1 hoarsepower 12. Shortest distance between two jokes - a straight line 13. 453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake 14. 1 million microphones = 1 megaphone 15. 1 million bicycles = 1 megacycles 16. 365.25 days = 1 unicycle 17. 2000 mockingbirds = two kilomockingbirds 18. 10 cards = 1 decacard 19. 52 cards = 1 deckacard 20. 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 fig Newton 21. 1000 grams of wet socks = 1 literhosen 22. 1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche 23. 1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin 24. 10 rations = 1 decaration 25. 100 rations = 1 C-ration 26. 2 monograms = 1 diagram 27. 8 nickels = 2 paradigms 28. 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital = 1 I.V. League John AE5X https://ae5x.blogspot.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] [Way (OT)] Pedantic comment about metric usage
At the risk of arousing Eric’s ire I tender the unit of measure in the most obscure terms. Velocity in furlongs/fortnight, for example. Hey, I’m on vacation. On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 15:59 Fred Jensen wrote: > Yep, KMcs. Even after Hz and it's metric extensions came along, those > who remember when the Holy Frequency was the world's party line still > used the more reverent Kcs to refer to it. [:-) > > 73, > Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW > Sparks NV DM09dn > Washoe County > > On 7/30/2019 8:56 AM, Randy Farmer wrote: > > Oh, my. Does anyone remember "kilo-megacycles"? Guess we got that one > > fixed. > > > > 73... > > Randy, W8FN > > __ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to r...@wc3t.us -- 72, Rich Hurd / WC3T / DMR: 3142737 Northampton County RACES, EPA-ARRL Public Information Officer for Scouting Latitude: 40.761621 Longitude: -75.288988 (40°45.68' N 75°17.33' W) Grid: *FN20is* __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] [Way (OT)] Pedantic comment about metric usage
Yep, KMcs. Even after Hz and it's metric extensions came along, those who remember when the Holy Frequency was the world's party line still used the more reverent Kcs to refer to it. [:-) 73, Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW Sparks NV DM09dn Washoe County On 7/30/2019 8:56 AM, Randy Farmer wrote: Oh, my. Does anyone remember "kilo-megacycles"? Guess we got that one fixed. 73... Randy, W8FN __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] [Way (OT)] Pedantic comment about metric usage
...AND how to divide by 1000. On Tue, Jul 30, 2019, 12:47 PM Gwen Patton wrote: > That's how the seller lists it. But thank you for reminding me how to > divide by 100 by moving the decimal point two places to the left. I'd > *totally forgotten* until you mentioned it. > > > > On Tue, Jul 30, 2019, 11:48 AM Bill Frantz wrote: > >> Since I'm studying to be a curmudgeon... :-) >> >> A recent post mentioned a 8300mAh battery*. That should have >> been written as an 8.3AH battery. Also we should be dealing in >> bels, not decibels, megameters instead of thousands of >> kilometers etc. >> >> 73 Bill AE6JV >> >> * Reference deleted to protect the guilty. >> >> --- >> Bill Frantz| Privacy is dead, get over| Periwinkle >> (408)356-8506 | it. | 16345 >> Englewood Ave >> www.pwpconsult.com | - Scott McNealy | Los Gatos, >> CA 95032 >> >> __ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> Message delivered to ard...@gmail.com >> > __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] [Way (OT)] Pedantic comment about metric usage
> That should have been written as an 8.3AH battery. > > 73 Bill AE6JV Careful about your wishes. Strictly speaking, there is no metric time unit called an hour...just seconds (s). Your "8.3AH" should be "29880 A•s". Mike / KK5F __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] [Way (OT)] Pedantic comment about metric usage
If a megameter is 1000 kilometers, what is a trigometer ? 73, Charlie k3ICH -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net On Behalf Of Bill Frantz Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2019 11:48 AM To: Elecraft Subject: [Elecraft] [Way (OT)] Pedantic comment about metric usage Since I'm studying to be a curmudgeon... :-) A recent post mentioned a 8300mAh battery*. That should have been written as an 8.3AH battery. Also we should be dealing in bels, not decibels, megameters instead of thousands of kilometers etc. 73 Bill AE6JV * Reference deleted to protect the guilty. --- Bill Frantz| Privacy is dead, get over| Periwinkle (408)356-8506 | it. | 16345 Englewood Ave www.pwpconsult.com | - Scott McNealy | Los Gatos, CA 95032 __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to pin...@erols.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] [Way (OT)] Pedantic comment about metric usage
That's how the seller lists it. But thank you for reminding me how to divide by 100 by moving the decimal point two places to the left. I'd *totally forgotten* until you mentioned it. On Tue, Jul 30, 2019, 11:48 AM Bill Frantz wrote: > Since I'm studying to be a curmudgeon... :-) > > A recent post mentioned a 8300mAh battery*. That should have > been written as an 8.3AH battery. Also we should be dealing in > bels, not decibels, megameters instead of thousands of > kilometers etc. > > 73 Bill AE6JV > > * Reference deleted to protect the guilty. > > --- > Bill Frantz| Privacy is dead, get over| Periwinkle > (408)356-8506 | it. | 16345 > Englewood Ave > www.pwpconsult.com | - Scott McNealy | Los Gatos, > CA 95032 > > __ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to ard...@gmail.com > __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] [Way (OT)] Pedantic comment about metric usage
Walter, When I went to Michigan Tech University, I once did an hour’s worth of calculations and got an answer but assigned the incorrect designator like you just pointed out. I got 0-credit for the work. Lesson learned. De Frank KG9H > On Jul 30, 2019, at 11:11 AM, Walter Underwood wrote: > > I guess you wouldn’t be a fan of my recent blog post. > > https://observer.wunderwood.org/2019/07/24/one-million-meters/ > > While we are being pedantic, it is “h” for hour instead of “H”, and SI always > puts a space between the number and the dimension. So that would be 8.3 Ah. > Now we can all practice typing “40 m band” with a space. :-) > > I spent some time trying to write a parser for dimensioned data, so I dug > deeply into this. I work on a search engine for STEM homework problems. > > wunder > K6WRU > Walter Underwood > CM87wj > http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog) > >> On Jul 30, 2019, at 8:47 AM, Bill Frantz wrote: >> >> Since I'm studying to be a curmudgeon... :-) >> >> A recent post mentioned a 8300mAh battery*. That should have been written as >> an 8.3AH battery. Also we should be dealing in bels, not decibels, >> megameters instead of thousands of kilometers etc. >> >> 73 Bill AE6JV >> >> * Reference deleted to protect the guilty. >> >> --- >> Bill Frantz| Privacy is dead, get over| Periwinkle >> (408)356-8506 | it. | 16345 Englewood Ave >> www.pwpconsult.com | - Scott McNealy | Los Gatos, CA 95032 >> >> __ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> Message delivered to wun...@wunderwood.org > > __ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to kg9hfr...@gmail.com __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] [Way (OT)] Pedantic comment about metric usage
I guess you wouldn’t be a fan of my recent blog post. https://observer.wunderwood.org/2019/07/24/one-million-meters/ While we are being pedantic, it is “h” for hour instead of “H”, and SI always puts a space between the number and the dimension. So that would be 8.3 Ah. Now we can all practice typing “40 m band” with a space. :-) I spent some time trying to write a parser for dimensioned data, so I dug deeply into this. I work on a search engine for STEM homework problems. wunder K6WRU Walter Underwood CM87wj http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog) > On Jul 30, 2019, at 8:47 AM, Bill Frantz wrote: > > Since I'm studying to be a curmudgeon... :-) > > A recent post mentioned a 8300mAh battery*. That should have been written as > an 8.3AH battery. Also we should be dealing in bels, not decibels, megameters > instead of thousands of kilometers etc. > > 73 Bill AE6JV > > * Reference deleted to protect the guilty. > > --- > Bill Frantz| Privacy is dead, get over| Periwinkle > (408)356-8506 | it. | 16345 Englewood Ave > www.pwpconsult.com | - Scott McNealy | Los Gatos, CA 95032 > > __ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to wun...@wunderwood.org __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] [Way (OT)] Pedantic comment about metric usage
Bill - Me thinks ur have studied well. Dave - K9FN On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 11:48 AM Bill Frantz wrote: > Since I'm studying to be a curmudgeon... :-) > > A recent post mentioned a 8300mAh battery*. That should have > been written as an 8.3AH battery. Also we should be dealing in > bels, not decibels, megameters instead of thousands of > kilometers etc. > > 73 Bill AE6JV > > * Reference deleted to protect the guilty. > > --- > Bill Frantz| Privacy is dead, get over| Periwinkle > (408)356-8506 | it. | 16345 > Englewood Ave > www.pwpconsult.com | - Scott McNealy | Los Gatos, > CA 95032 > > __ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to dpbu...@gmail.com > __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] [Way (OT)] Pedantic comment about metric usage
Oh, my. Does anyone remember "kilo-megacycles"? Guess we got that one fixed. 73... Randy, W8FN On 7/30/2019 10:47 AM, Bill Frantz wrote: Since I'm studying to be a curmudgeon... :-) A recent post mentioned a 8300mAh battery*. That should have been written as an 8.3AH battery. Also we should be dealing in bels, not decibels, megameters instead of thousands of kilometers etc. 73 Bill AE6JV * Reference deleted to protect the guilty. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Elecraft] [Way (OT)] Pedantic comment about metric usage
Since I'm studying to be a curmudgeon... :-) A recent post mentioned a 8300mAh battery*. That should have been written as an 8.3AH battery. Also we should be dealing in bels, not decibels, megameters instead of thousands of kilometers etc. 73 Bill AE6JV * Reference deleted to protect the guilty. --- Bill Frantz| Privacy is dead, get over| Periwinkle (408)356-8506 | it. | 16345 Englewood Ave www.pwpconsult.com | - Scott McNealy | Los Gatos, CA 95032 __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
