[Boatanchors] WTB: Xtals (even mHz)

[W2HX]

I think kilo is abbreviated in lowercase "kHz" whereas mega prefix uses
capital "MHz" "Mc/s" Anyone know why kilo is lowercase? Millihertz iz mHz,
microhertz us uHz (or using the mu letter"

73 Eugene W2HX


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Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2010 11:13 AM
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Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] WTB: Xtals (even mHz)

Respect to ALL,

The crystals themselves are marked in Kc.

My "older" radios and manuals are "labeled" or in the case of manuals, 
"printed" withe Kc, (or Kilocycles), and Mc, (or Megacycles).

Yep!  Around 40 years or so ago I learned both.

The LAST I looked, the "name" of the list IS - BOATANCHORS!  I can 
converse in Hertz or in Cycles.  It doesn't make a single bit of difference.

Everybody enjoy!

Bob - N0DGN

On 11/14/2010 10:50 AM, oldradio at comcast.net wrote:
> I agree with Bruce.  I see calling it a kilocycle or megacycle as a badge
of honor for we who remember when it was called only that.
>
> It's sort of like when you have a nice old street in your town and
everybody knows its name.  Then the newbies in town change the name to that
of their favorite politician (that nobody liked anyway).
>
> Later when you give someone "new to town" directions based on the old
street name you remember, they get lost.
>
> And speaking of directions - I remember when I was 17, working at nights
at a gas station just outside of Atlantic City.  Pappy, the owners father,
had a gimic he used for people who would pull in when it was raining and
only wanted directions, not gas.  No matter which way they pulled in the
directions were always the same, standing in the rain he would tell them,
"Straight ahead, you can't miss it, then turn right."  (The wide ramp the
Miss America Parade floats used to exit the Boardwalk was at the end of the
highway, and looked like a street.)
>
> The AC press was always confused why so many cars drove right up on the
Boardwalk, and then off the end where it zig-zaged at the next city,
Ventnor. And it only happened when it rained.
>
> 73, John Dilks, K2TQN
>      "Straight Ahead!"

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