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Old November 26th 04, 02:54 PM
Robert Bonomi
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In article ,
Jim Weir wrote:
Yes, my stupid. w is a full wavelength.

HOWEVER, the assumed frequency is MHz. (megahertz), not mHz (millihertz) if we
are going to get picky.


Life was *so* much simpler when you could just call it 'megacycles', and use
'mc' as the abbreviation, and everybody knew what you meant. grin

The 'computers' world doesn't help much, either. Where storage 'scaling' uses
upper or lower case, depending on whether it is a 'power of two' factor or a
'power of 10' factor. I can never remember which is to be used for which..
*sigh*

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Old November 27th 04, 05:35 PM
Ron Natalie
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Robert Bonomi wrote:
In article ,
Jim Weir wrote:

Yes, my stupid. w is a full wavelength.

HOWEVER, the assumed frequency is MHz. (megahertz), not mHz (millihertz) if we
are going to get picky.



Life was *so* much simpler when you could just call it 'megacycles', and use
'mc' as the abbreviation, and everybody knew what you meant. grin


Frequency is measured in cycles, not cubits, bushels or yards.
Hertz rents cars.

There once was a woman named Mavis,
who thought kilohertz was depravis,
If number one wasn't enough,
and number two tried hard enough,
Kilohertz would soon become kiloavis.
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Old November 27th 04, 06:09 PM
Wayne Paul
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"Ron Natalie" wrote in message
...
Robert Bonomi wrote:
In article ,
Jim Weir wrote:

Yes, my stupid. w is a full wavelength.

HOWEVER, the assumed frequency is MHz. (megahertz), not mHz (millihertz)

if we
are going to get picky.



Life was *so* much simpler when you could just call it 'megacycles', and

use
'mc' as the abbreviation, and everybody knew what you meant. grin


Frequency is measured in cycles, not cubits, bushels or yards.
Hertz rents cars.

Technically, frequency is measured in cycles per unit of time. A Hertz is
defined as 1 cycle per second. The term megacycles is incomplete due to the
lack of a time element. By the way, when did the ARRL officially accept the
Hertz terminology?

H Wayne Paul
W7ADK


 




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