Tony, that’s WAY too simple. You should have to use a non-integer conversion
factor for every range change to be really in touch with the BSA standards!!!!
Heaven forbid one could keep track of measurements over 24 orders of magnitude
or so using only a simple movement of a decimal point to move through the full
range from atomistic dimensions (femptometers, Angstroms, nanometers, microns,
millimeters, centimeters, meters, kilometers) through astronomical dimensions
(light years in kilometers per second).
How silly is that?
I’d MUCH rather keep track of micro inches, inches (and 16ths thereof), feet,
yards, miles and astronomical units with no rational numerical relationship
between any of the units! So much more sensible…
I think there are still some people who think you can calculate a square root
using Roman Numerals…
I wonder how one would work with logarithms using Roman Numerals?
Try it sometime… It’s a hoot! And not far from the BSA standard in terms of
sensibility...
Gary
> On Apr 25, 2016, at 11:29 PM, Tony <va3dwi@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> And if you wish to know the wavelength of any frequency, just divide 300 by
> the frequency in MHz and you have the wavelength in meters. How easy is that!
>
> 73, Tony VE3DWI.
>
> Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Bell network.
> Original Message
> From: Tim
> Sent: Monday, April 25, 2016 23:35
> To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
> Reply To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Come On Guys
>
> Hi,
>
> I will contribute something for fun as well.
>
> In 1976 I got my ham license and bought an Argonaut 509. I had just
> finished getting my first class radiotelephone license and the radio
> station I worked at required us to give the temperature in Celsius and
> Fahrenheit. So I learned a few temps because we used them a lot living
> on the Central coast of California. I didn't like Celsius.
>
> Now I live in Minnesota and when the temperature gets below zero
> Fahrenheit the number is just pretty much meaningless. It's just cold.
> Now I appreciate Celsius because -23c makes sense since we know that it
> is 23 degrees below freezing.
>
> So now when I cut a dipole for 20 meters I just keep it in metric and
> cut a bit more than 10 meters.
>
> http://i.imgur.com/R3N0eCy.jpg
>
>
> 73,
>
> Tim
> KE4KE
>
>
>
> On 04/25/2016 07:43 PM, Gary J FollettDukes HiFi wrote:
>> Well, we all agree to disagree.
>>
>> METRIC FOREVER!!!!!
>>
>>
>> Gary
>>
>>
>>> On Apr 25, 2016, at 7:41 PM, john <johnmb@nc.rr.com> wrote:
>>>
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