[Elecraft] Units

[Jon K Hellan]

Bill W5WVO wrote:
> Silly thread -- :-) -- but it is important to keep one's facts
> straight. The Cycle per Second was named the Hertz in compliance
> with a long tradition in the scientific community of naming
> scientific units of measure after the folks who did seminal work
> in those areas of science. Mssrs Alessandro Volta (voltage),
> Andre-Marie Ampere (current), Georg Ohm (resistance), James Watt
> (power), Nicola Tesla (magnetic flux density), Blaise Pascal
> (pressure), and Isaac Newton (force), to name just a few I can
> think of off the top of my head, were all "just men". :-)
> Heinrich Hertz (electromagnetic frequency) takes his rightful
> place in this pantheon proudly.

But given that the radian already is an SI unit, the Hz is redundant. Radians/s is sufficient.

Jon LA4RT