[Elecraft] Puffing to keep up with the Nanofarads...

[Doug Faunt N6TQS +1-510-655-8604]

   Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 17:40:39 -0800
   From: Fred Jensen <k6dgw at foothill.net>

   Not to rain on anyone's parade, but I think I remember the terms and
   abbreviations were:

   Microfarads (mf) as in "a 0.1mf wax impregnated paper condenser"

Actually, what you're showing as an "m" was a lower-case Greek Mu.
"m" means "milli", an order of magnitude different.

   Micromicrofarads (mmf) as in a "3-section 365mmf air variable condenser
   for the TRF receiver.

   As I recall, it generally was kilocycles (kc or kcs) through ten meters,
   and thereafter megacycles (mc or mcs) up to what is now known as 1GHz
   (which was called a kilomegacycle [kmcs]).  Anything above a few
   kilomegacycles hadn't been invented yet.

And "cycles" for frequency, by itself means very little.  The proper
term was "cycles per second", which is what "Hertz" replaces, not just
"cycles" 

I don't think Mr. Hertz used "cycles" since he was a scientist, and
would think accuracy of expression was important, but he probably used
"cycles per second".

73, doug