[ARC5] Meter. Feet, Pounde etc.,,

[Henry Mei'l's]

True, BOTOH, the speed of light, used to define
wavelength now normally defined in m/s or km/s would be then be deifned in 
mph or ft/s or yds/s and would result in different figures for what is now 
defined as 80, 40,...6 etc. meter ham bands

IOW:
3x10(exp8)m/s / 50(exp6)Hz = 6 meters would become aprox. 1.86(exp5)miles/s 
/ 50 or  (1.86(exp5)x5280ft/3)yds/s /50 = "6.55 yard band"
which probably would be called the 7 yard band!  So would ham bands 
frequencies then be based on so many yards of wavelength? Very cumbersome
indeed compared to just metric,300/50 = 6 meters. (I sometime screw up in 
decimal places/exponents when I do them in my head so you'd better check my 
figures!)

I suppose UHF would be called so and so  many mils bands.

Being a ham and having been in MARS and the miltitary, the metric system 
(eg. xtals are specified in degrees, C),  and days in hundred-hours,
were no problem for me when I arrived in DK.

That's my 2 cents for today, at least so far. (No farthings or pence, please 
;0)

73
Henry, Cph.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Feher" <n4fs at eozinc.com>
To: "'Discussion of AN/ARC-5 military radio equipment.'" 
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Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 3:58 AM
Subject: Re: [ARC5] Meter. Feet, Pounde etc.,,


> Yep. And what would the UHF/microwave guys do? Instead of getting on 3 cm 
> at
> 10 GHz, would it be, hey, let's get on 1.2 inches. - Mike
>
> Mike B. Feher, N4FS
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net] 
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> Behalf Of Todd, KA1KAQ
> Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 9:46 PM
> To: Discussion of AN/ARC-5 military radio equipment.
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] Meter. Feet, Pounde etc.,,
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> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 9:42 PM, Mike Feher <n4fs at eozinc.com> wrote:
>> For example, if wanting to get on 80 meters, I never heard anyone
>> ever say, hey, let's get on 260 feet. 73 - Mike
>
> Or the 87.5 Yard band.   :D
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> ~ Todd,  KA1KAQ/4
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