That's encouraging! In another 30 or 40 years...
Jim
"James J. Wentworth" wrote:
>
> I have noticed that antenna plans in the annual ARRL handbooks are more and
> more commonly using millimeter dimensions "for greater accuracy," as the
> captions frequently say.
>
> Jason
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: James R. Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 2:52 PM
> Subject: [USMA:10250] Fwd: ARLS001 AO-40 Recovery Continues
>
> Note the reference to a 400 newton propulsion system in this extract
> from a bulletin of the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), an
> organization for amateur radio operators.
>
> Unfortunately, the ARRL persists in using ifp units in their articles
> on building radios and antennas. Can you imagine how silly it seems to
> measure out the elements for a 2 meter dipole in inches instead of just
> using a metric tape? Perhaps this marks a new recognition of and move
> towards using international units. A good start would be correcting the
> text below to put the N in "newton" in lowercase, of course.
>
> Jim
> WB1ELJ
>
> ---------- Forwarded Message ----------
> Subject: ARLS001 AO-40 Recovery Continues
> Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 15:43:44 -0500 (EST)
> From: ARRL Web site <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> ....
> Ground controllers now are analyzing the telemetry sent via the S2
> beacon on 2401.305 MHz. AMSAT-NA President Robin Haighton, VE3FRH,
> says the command team worked through the holidays in an effort to
> determine just what went wrong aboard AO-40. Among other things,
> ground controllers would like to know what actually happened on
> December 13 and why, as well as which telemetry functions are known
> to be correct and which data are suspect and why. The satellite went
> silent during maneuvers to test its onboard 400-Newton propulsion
> system following an earlier orbit-shifting burn.
> ....
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