[SOC] 20 FEET

[Thomas Spencer]

drink enough sake and you won't know the difference between minibars or
milibars or much less care. You know why they sit on pillows on the floor
during dinner with sake - that is so you don't have so far to fall.

-----Original Message-----
From: SOC [mailto:soc-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2015 2:22 PM
To: Second Class Operators' Club
Subject: Re: [SOC] 20 FEET

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
>
> E-Mail :   n4bp at arrl.net                Website: http://www.qsl.net/n4bp
> SOC #1          ARS #799                QRP ARCI #3412       FISTS #7871
> FP #1491     10-10 #3268                SMIRK #6625
>
> ______________________________________________________________
> SOC mailing list
> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/soc
> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
> Post: mailto:SOC at mailman.qth.net
> Message delivered to johnpbache at hotmail.com
>
> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email 
> list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html 
> ______________________________________________________________
> SOC mailing list
> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/soc
> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
> Post: mailto:SOC at mailman.qth.net
> Message delivered to tbspencer at windstream.net
>
> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email 
> list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
>
>
> ______________________________________________________________
> SOC mailing list
> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/soc
> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
> Post: mailto:SOC at mailman.qth.net
> Message delivered to n1ea at arrl.net
>
> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email 
> list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
>
______________________________________________________________
SOC mailing list
Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/soc
Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
Post: mailto:SOC at mailman.qth.net
Message delivered to tbspencer at windstream.net

This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html