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[TenTec] CW on 60m

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Subject: [TenTec] CW on 60m
From: k6se@juno.com (k6se@juno.com)
Date: Fri May 16 01:00:55 2003
Ken Brown wrote:

"It is kHz, NOT KHz.  The international standard is that k stands for
kilo and upper case K is reserved for Kelvin.  So even though it seems
inconsistant we have Hz, kHZ, MHz, GHz."
==========
I still often find myself saying, "kilocycles" and "megacycles", so I
would've preferred that they used Thomas Alva Edison's AC genius
assistant Charles Proteus Steinmetz's initials (cps) for the unit of
frequency instead of Hertz.

73, de Earl, K6SE
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