[Scanner] metric

[DW White]

Technically, we did...sort of.

Here in the non-committal US of A, both metric and "English 'ft & inches'" 
measure are legal and acceptable--simultaneously.

Some industries, primarily automotive, converted to metric over time.  When 
I worked at a Chevrolet dealership in the early 80's, bolts painted powder 
blue were metric.  They were painted so the technicians knew what bloody 
wrenches to grab.  I have seen cars where the left front shock mount bolts 
were 3/8", and the right front 10mm.  Now they're all metric.

The town that I grew up in started posting speed limits in both mph and kph. 
  problem was, somebody boo-boo'd the conversions, so you dould do , say 37 
mph in a 35 zone.  If ticketec, you just claimed that you were under the kph 
limit posted.  If the officer was there, you could nail him/her by asking 
the metric conversions to various speeds, which they couldn't normally 
answer.

Personally, I wish we wouldn't be so bloody arrogant in the US.  Teach both 
systems in school for twenty years, while doing a gradual phase in, they 
just go metric.  It's a lot easier.

The soapbox is open.

Asbestos underwear is on.

73,  DW, KE6WYB, Shasta County California, CM80 <><

PS for Harry M--Is there a scanner list anywhere in the US that you're not 
on??


----Original Message Follows----
From: Edmund F Leavitt <ed.leavitt@juno.com>
Reply-To: scanner@mailman.qth.net
To: scanner@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Scanner] metric
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 18:34:44 -0700

Weren't we supposed to be converting to metric about 20 years  ago (520
fortnights for those who prefer more traditional measurements)      ;-}
???



On Sat, 15 Jun 2002 18:20:26 -0700 "Harry Marnell"
<marnells@snowcrest.net> writes:
 > For folks more inclined to take the simplest route with most-familiar
 > units of measurement, another "formula" for determining the length
 > of a half-wave is to divide 5616 by the frequency in MHz, which
 > gives you the approximate halfwave length in inches... e.g.
 >
 > for 150 Mhz:   5616 / 150 = 37.44"
 > for  42 Mhz:    5616 / 42  = 133.71"  (a definite problem with a
 > handheld!)
 > for  460 Mhz   5616 / 460 = 12.21"
 > for  850 Mhz   5616 / 850 =  6.61"
 > for  900 Mhz   5616 / 900 =  6.24"
 >
 > Quarter-wavelength antennas would be exactly half those lengths, of
 > course [or 2808/MHz - F (in)]
 >
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