[GreenKeys] Why "kHz" instead of "KHz"?

tony.podrasky tony.podrasky at gmail.com
Tue Jul 25 19:33:16 EDT 2017



On 07/25/2017 04:20 PM, Richard Knoppow wrote:
>     No idea at all. Kilo presumably should be capital K but its not like
> M where M (capital) means Mega while m (small) means milli or micro
> although u also means micro, as in uF or uH.  OTOH, H should probably be
> capitalized because its the initial of a name (Hertz). So should F for
> Farad or H for Henry. I do follow this convention but have no idea if
> its an established practice. Also, all those old schematics where m ohm
> meant thousand not Mega. Very confusing.
> So, CPS, cps, C/S, you can't win.
>

Yeah, well - I guess then it's 73's to the group... :-)

(We used to have a late-evening 15 Meter SSB group back in the
late '60's. One of the guys would always say "73's", which would
annoy the heck out of one of the other guys).  ;-)

UE,
K2EAA - TONY
NNNN
ZCZC


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