[SOC] 20 FEET

[Jerry]

Burma and Liberia do not use it either.. so you just 'lag behind the 
Rest of the World like some other Third World Countries' !  lol ;o)
It is very easy to understand once you 'get it' ! Everything is in 
'Tens' ! However.. with the US System.. when a Plane goes down in 
Canada, and 100 are Lost.. that's only 62 in the US !
VE6CPP

On 7/19/2015 15:59, Chris, G5VZ wrote:
> On 19/07/15 16:41, Bob Patten wrote:
>> Having nothing better to do in the CQWW VHF Contest this morning, I
>> started thinking about how frequency is measured and that the US is the
>> only country in the world that hasn't adopted the metric system.
>>
>>
>>
> For much of the rest of the world, Bob, 33 feet is 10 metres.  Ten 
> meters look like this
>
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/zy11nma6p0zkmm0/10meters.png?dl=0
>
> de G5VZ
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