On Fri, 17 Nov 2000 22:43:38 -0500, you wrote:
>2000-10-17
>
>Does anyone know anything about Satellite dishes? Are they metric in design
>and manufacture and just soft converted to FFU? Is the 20 inch Satellite
>list below really a soft conversion of 50 cm. I remember when I was in
>Germany in the early 1990's, that 60 cm satellite dishes were very popular,
>even in a time when American Satellite dishes were no smaller than 3 m.
In the UK, dishes have always been metric. 60 cm is the standard size,
with 80 cm being used in more northern parts of Britain. Of course, if
you want real TV (not R Murdoch's version) then you generally need
bigger dishes - but they're all metric.
--
Chris KEENAN
UK Metrication: http://www.metric.org.uk/
UK Correspondent, US Metric Association
