[Elecraft] [Way (OT)] Pedantic comment about metric usage

Don Wilhelm donwilh at embarqmail.com
Tue Jul 30 16:49:35 EDT 2019


Skip,

The proper way to represent units with kilo (10 exp 3) in it is with a 
lower case "k".
"m" stands for milli (10 exp -3) while "M" stands for Mega (10 exp 6).

Hz is capitalized because it is a man's name - Hertz.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 7/30/2019 3:59 PM, Fred Jensen wrote:
> Yep, KMcs.  Even after Hz and it's metric extensions came along, those 
> who remember when the Holy Frequency was the world's party line still 
> used the more reverent Kcs to refer to it. [:-)


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