[Elecraft] Units

[Rick Dettinger]

On Dec 8, 2008, at 11:09 AM, David Cutter wrote:

> A pity our cousins from across the water are not all on board the SI  
> express.
>
David
Yes, it is.  And we still refer to our archaic system as the English  
system.
We actually had a push to go metric in the mid 1800's but only got as  
far as changing the inch by a small enough amount to make 2.54 cm  
equal exactly 1 inch.  It used to be based on the length of a small  
worm (:
Even countries using the metric system don't get it right.  Speed is  
measured in kilometers per hour.  The hour is not a metric unit.  It  
should be meters per second for traffic signs and weather reports.
I worked for the local power coumpany and they are half right.  They  
use the watt for power but the watt hour for energy, which again  
messes up the units for metrics.  3600 joules per watthour just  
doesn't get it. And every other form of energy has its own unit of  
measurement.  Yuck.
But I do what I can.  I named my sailboat STORMJOULE.   The dingy was  
ERG.

73
Rick Dettinger   K7MW as in MegaWatt (: