[SOC] 20 FEET

[D.J.J. Ring, Jr.]

I cannot fathom why, I personally don't know knots from nauts as it should
be spelled, but my atmospheric pressure is measured in inches of HG, but I
want to go to Japan and try their mini-bars, oh sorry, it is millibars.

73

DR
On Jul 19, 2015 1:58 PM, "Thomas Spencer" <tbspencer at windstream.net> wrote:

> Being a retired sailor I would prefer fathoms
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: SOC [mailto:soc-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of John Bache
> G7JMZ
> Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2015 11:50 AM
> To: Second Class Operators' Club
> Subject: Re: [SOC] 20 FEET
>
> I prefer cubits actually
>
> On 19 Jul 2015 16:41, Bob Patten <n4bp at bellsouth.net> 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.
>
> Sooo...
>
> In keeping with our insistence to use our own system of weights and
> measures, I propose that we immediately begin referring to our ham bands as
> only the US should:
>
> 6 Meters should be called the 20 Foot Band
>
> For HF, also with some approximations, the bands should be referred to as
> follows:
>
> 10 Meters becomes the 33 Foot band
> 15   "        "    "  50 Foot Band
> 20   "                65 Foot Band
> 40   "               130 Foot Band
> 80   "               260 Foot Band
> 160  "               525 Foot Band
>
> Formulas for antenna calculations could be simplified since element lengths
> for us are specified in feet and inches.
>
> --
> 73,     Bob Patten, N4BP                Plantation, FL
>
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