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

[mhuffstutter at seanet.com]

Hi Tony,

        I wondered about this a while back, made no sense to Me either.
After some web research discovered the reason. It was to avoid standards
confusion. Capital K had already been adopted by the International System
of Units (SI) Organization as the identifier for Kelvin, of the Kelvin
Thermodynamic scale. Same reason that Kilowatts are kW.

Best Regards,
Mark




> GA OMs;
>
> How come they use kHz with a lower-case "K" instead
> of uppercase - like all the other frequency designation?
>
> UE,
> K2EAA - TONY
> NNNN
> ZCZC
>
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> "series of three" is not the fourth job -- it's
> the start of a brand new "series of three".
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