[Elecraft] stranger than real life

[John R. Lonigro]

Like it or not, the US is still using feet and yards, not centimeters 
and meters.  The shortwave bands have traditionally been specified using 
the metric system.  However, we don't typically have meter sticks 
handy.  So if the ARRL would say to use an antenna 10.52 meters long, 
the first thing most hams would have to do is convert to feet.  So why 
not specify it in feet to start with?  It's inconsistent, but sometimes 
handy to mix units.
Just my opinion,

John AA0VE

mc wrote:

>When studying the HAM workbooks from ARRL,  I found a few inconsistency in statements,  example one of many: Is there a reason why HAM's use 40 meters (or other band) at 7.125 kHz (or other frequency) then say the antenna should be 34.5 feet
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>would it not be easier to keep everything in metric
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