[Elecraft] [OT] 10 mHZ vs 10 Mhz

Ken wa8jxm at gmail.com
Tue Nov 3 23:30:46 EST 2015


  I always remember 100K resistors and a 1M resistor was one megohm.   I 
started with electronics in the mid 50's when transistors were new 
fangled things with 3 leads connected to a piece of germanium.

Even in the 50s, I believe it was recognized that electron flow was from 
the negative to the positive.  I think it was in the late 50s that the 
military changed to NATO phonetics and Baker's Dog Charlie wasn't Easy 
in an official capacity.

73, Ken WA8JXM

On 11/3/15 1:35 PM, Marc Veeneman wrote:
> When I started in the 1950s, we tuned kilocycles and announced Abel, Baker, Charlie, Dog, Easy, Fox.
>
> A thousand was M, a million was MM, and Greek was a foreign language.
>
> Does current still flow from + to - in a circuit?  If not, then most of my early electronics training was fanciful and my Elmers would be embarrassed were they not SK.



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