>
>You're right Bill, but the "units" thing was no more than a red herring. It
>just detoured the conversation away from the original question - a common
>occurance here.
>
indeed, Phil. The AMPS group is sort of like a technoblatherer magnet.
. I could olfactorily-envision a red herring coming from this
particular source well over a year ago.
cheers.
>
>At 06:54 AM 9/22/99 -0500, you wrote:
>>
>>>
>>Not only that, one of the very vocal participants in the game cant even
>>understand that, just because the standard way of measuring resitivity uses
>>a cubic centimeter, the units are NOTohms per cubic centimeter- Just for
>>kicks, I checked several references- (like the Handbook of Chemistry and
>>Physics, Marks Engineers handbook, The Van Nostrand Scientific
>>Encyclopedia- and the NASA spec on Units and Conversion factors- )
>>
>>ALL of these think the units of Resistivity are ohm-cm, or a fraction
>>thereof.
>>
>>The Brit checked his data after his first statement concerning the relative
>>resistivity (or conductivity) of Copper and Silver, and made an open (to
>>the list) correction- I wonder if the other guy, who used his mistake in
>>units as a venue for insulting comments, can be as open and say he was
>>wrong- ( at least, this time)
>>
>>Fat chance.
>>
>>Bill- W4BSG
>>-
>>Bill Aycock --- Persimmon Hill
>> Woodville, Alabama, US 35776
>> (in the N.E. corner of the State)
>> W4BSG -- Grid EM64vr
>> baycock@HiWAAY.net
>> w4bsg@arrl.net
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