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Re: [TenTec] Orion (original) S-meter

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion (original) S-meter
From: "Chortek, Robert L" <robert.chortek@berliner.com>
Reply-to: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 09:21:34 -0800
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Scotch is also a brand of tape, used to fasten one thing to another...

73,

Bob/AA6VB

P.S. Are we getting off topic?

-----Original Message-----
From: tentec-bounces@contesting.com
[mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Robert & Linda
McGraw K4TAX
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 9:13 AM
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion (original) S-meter


Actually Scotch is true whiskey which is then used to make a drink
according 
to the Brits.

73
Bob, K4TAX



> "Scotch" is a drink.  The Scots are a proud nation.
>
>
>
>>
>> I  think that was about the time that the S-9 = uV, and 6 dB per 
>> S-unit standard got popular, and Collins stuck to it pretty 
>> rigorously.  They are still known as having "Scotch" (as in 
>> 'tight-fisted') meters.
>>


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