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

[Henry Mei'l's]

Many here mentioned units and systems in their engineering courses. I'm 
curious to hear if my text books from my time (1960's) at preengineering at 
Hunter/CCNY, Bklyn. Poly and EE at Copen. Engineering 'Teknikum' are roughly 
the same.
My main tomes were:
Thomas, Kreizig,  Stroud, Sears & Zemansky, Kip, Fowler & Meyer and The 
Feynman Lectures. Thomas was used both in NY and Copen. I still have all my 
textbooks and I definitlely intend to see if I can understand them in the 
near future ;0)

HM, Cph.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Henry Mei'l's" <meils at get2net.dk>
To: "Discussion of AN/ARC-5 military radio equipment." 
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Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 8:22 AM
Subject: Re: [ARC5] Meter. Feet, Pounde etc.,,


> 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
>> 89 Arnold Blvd.
>> Howell, NJ, 07731
>> 732-886-5960
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
>> On
>> 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.,,
>>
>> 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
>>
>> ~ Todd,  KA1KAQ/4
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