Just want to put my 10 cents worth in here too!
Has anyone of you ever had a contact on 27.55905512 inches?? Or even on
262.4671916 feet?? Or we could call it 70cm or 80m. Much easier! I'm a
german, living in Australia and my back"yard" is big enough, to put up
an 80m loop, even though I have only 2 feet! I never really understood,
how someone can measure anything easily or calculate in 5/16th or in
/32th??? A cm is a cm and it usually consists off 10 mm. A lot of older
people here in this country do use the imperial system and everytime
they talk to me in imperial measurements, I tell them "and now please in
proper numbers", as I can't get my head around that stuff. Way too
complicated and awkward. And yes, there are people who weigh themselves
in Stones! So how is that then? I weigh about 95 Kg (which is way too
much) and that in stones would be 14.95993922. Maybe one could say 14
stones and a few pebbles ;-))!
And as for roundabouts, as they are called here in VK,they are very
useful and also fairly easy to figure out! If I want lets say (we,
driving on the wrong side),want to turn left at the first exit, I of
course have to be in the left lane to do so, otherwise I would crash
into someone, who might go straight, to take the second exit, if that
makes sense. So it is not really rocket science,but especially here in
VK, where you basically get your licence in a Cornflakes Box, you can
experience interesting situation. But overall, I guess it is not a bad
thing. And for a laugh, here in Melbourne, we have a hook turn!! If you
want to turn right on certain streets, you have to wait on the far left,
in the middle of the intersection and when when the road you want to
enter gets a green light, then you are allowed to turn. Not being rude,
but if I imagine you guys in the states have trouble with a round about,
just imagine that!!! I'm sure there is videos of a "hook turn" on youtube.
And apart from all that, this here being a TenTec forum, I can't wait to
see Ten Tec back up on top of Sherwood's list again and show all the
doubters, that Ten Tec is alive and will be stronger than ever! I'm
sure, we will see a proper new website soon, with lots of new stuff to come.
To Mike Dishop and the Ten Tec team, I have faith in you and I know you
will show all the competitors once again how it is done!!!
And one other small thing, without being racist or stepping on people's
toes, but knowing American's are all so patriotic, how is it, that soo
many people over there use Japanese radio's and drive Japanese cars???
Never really understood that......
Anyway, enough from here.
All of you have a nice week:-))!
Richard VK3KVK/DK3KVK
On 26/04/16 07:35, Gary J FollettDukes HiFi wrote:
Well, a little fairy tale never hurt anyone.
There is no justifiable reason for the USA to remain with the antiquated BSA
standard.
However, in reality, there is, sadly, some portion of the population that
thinks the fact that the rest of the world uses the metric system is the reason
why we should NOT use it.
That would be admitting that someone outside USA has a better idea.
Believe it or not, there are even folks here who rant about an occasional
roundabout on the roadways, when they are the very most efficient way to move
traffic, far better than our old stand by, the 4 way stop sign, whose only
purpose is to impede traffic flow equally in all directions.
Let’s see how simple this is: inches can be either divided by tenths, thousands
and millionths etc., or 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/32, and so on. Then there are 12 inches
per foot. Three feet to the yard. 5280 feet to the mile (unless you are talking
nautical mile (6070 feet).
Certainly the metric system is much more difficult - 1 micron, 1 mm, 1 cm, 1 dm, 1 m,
1 km and so on… pretty tough math!!!
Gary
On Apr 25, 2016, at 4:18 PM, rick@dj0ip.de <Rick@DJ0IP.de> wrote:
I don't think that's the reason Gary.
If I remember correctly from my army days, The AK-47 used ever so slightly
larger ammo than our M16. As a result, they could use our ammo in their
rifles, granted with a little less precision, but we could not use their
ammo in ours.
I don't think the decision was based on tools.
Most likely, like most everything else, there was a lobby behind that
decision.
IMO it was a BIG mistake not to go to the same system the rest of the world
uses.
73 - Rick, DJ0IP
(Nr. Frankfurt, Germany)
-----Original Message-----
From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Gary J
FollettDukes HiFi
Sent: Monday, April 25, 2016 10:34 PM
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Come On Guys
It was once explained to me that the uS refuses to switch more for military
reasons than any other.
By having all BSA parts and fittings, the tool used by an adversary would
not properly fit, nor would any so-called standard replacement parts.
As far as Kg as a weight unit, you are correct, it is a mass unit,
equivalent to 2.2 pounds at standard elevation and conditions.
For most important measurements, the mass is more important than the weight
(as in purchasing a gram of Gold).
Torque is still in force-length units such as foot-pounds, ounce-inches,
Newton-meters and so on.
Gary
On Apr 25, 2016, at 12:09 PM, Paul Littleton <ka5biw@swcp.com> wrote:
Normally, I am a stickler for proper units. But not when someone is asking
for help. Now to address a few things.
When talking to gear-heads, the terms pounds come up in tire pressure and
in torque output of the engine. I usually bite my tongue and insert the
proper units.
As for kg weight. Have a look at cereal packages. And, there are metric
systems that use kg as a unit of weight. That is just as confusing as
Americans using pound for a unit of mass and a unit of force. The only
saving grace is that 1 kg (1 lb) mass weighs 1 kg (1 lb) force on earth, at
sea level. Still, the introduction of a constant to Newton's famous equation
is a pain.
Finally, kilocycles per second is still a valid and descriptive unit. It
isn't in the SI system, but it makes understanding frequency easier.
I would like to see the United States join much of the rest of the world
and adopt SI. We would crash fewer probes on the surface of Mars that way.
Best Regards,
Paul
tapped out on an iPad
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