[Elecraft] New Elecraft product: XG3 All-Band RF Signal Source

[James Maynard]

You are an old English-speaking geezer (or at least an American-speaking 
geezer.)  But the modern metric system (SI, the International System of 
Units) tries to name derived units after people so as to avoid the 
problem of "cycle per second" not translating well into other 
languages.  (In not all languages does the word for "cycle" start with 
the letter "c".  After all, it was the French, not the English, who 
first introduced the metric system.

That's why this English-speaking (and French- and German-reading) geezer 
likes to follow the metric system style guide, found at
<http://www.bipm.org/utils/common/pdf/si_brochure_8_en.pdf>.

Jim, K7KK -- K3 #5263
"Ignorance is the Mother of Adventure!" -- Hagar the Horrible

On 2011-04-14 07:24 PM, n5ge at n5ge.com wrote:
> Cycles are oscillation measurements.
>
> Mr Herz was a man who passed away many years ago.
>
> I prefer the use of cycles, because they indicate the exact type of the
> measurement, but I'm just an old geezer who prefers many aspects of the old
> days.
>
> Tom
> N5GE