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

[Richard Knoppow]

    That makes a sort of sense. Not enough letters to go around and its 
important that symbols be consistent.

On 7/25/2017 5:37 PM, mhuffstutter at seanet.com wrote:
> 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
>>
>> --
>> Trouble strikes in "series of threes" - but when
>> working around the house the next job after a
>> "series of three" is not the fourth job -- it's
>> the start of a brand new "series of three".
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