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

[Mike S]

At 09:06 PM 12/16/2004, Doug Faunt N6TQS +1-510-655-8604 wrote...
>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".

One might presume so, incorrectly. It was common convention to use kilocycles (KC) and megacycles (MC), excluding any reference to "per second."

Here's an ARC-5 transmitter, showing same: http://hug-a-bug.com/arc5b.jpg

This convention also carried over into more formal texts: http://www.nj7p.org/manuals/arc-5/arc-5.html#_Toc460591310

Hertz himself, although occasionally making reference to "times per second", more often used "period of oscillation" and usually used wavelength, which makes sense, since this was much easier to measure at the time. Here's a brief portion of "Electrical Waves": http://historical.library.cornell.edu/gifcache/cdl/cdl334/00134.TIF6.gif