[Amps] Amps Digest, Vol 32, Issue 12: Metric system

[Mirko Sibilja]

...they buy petrol in #litres#! Know personally lot of UK guys who drink lot
of beer in 20 oz. pints and still manage to keep straight, :-D

Mirko, S57AD
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From: "N7HIY" <N7HIY at comcast.net>
To: "w5grg" <w5grg at comforttexas.net>; <amps at contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 7:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Amps] Amps Digest, Vol 32, Issue 12: Metric system


> Who knows where the inch, pound, gallon and yard measurments originated
> from? What point in history?
> Poor English, they measure breast size in inches, buy petrol in liters and
> drink beer in 20 oz. pints; how do they keep it straight?
> Try converting C.F.M. to gallons per hour sometime and be accurate withing
> .000002%
>
> Cliff N7HIY
>
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> From: "w5grg" <w5grg at comforttexas.net>
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> Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 8:31 AM
> Subject: Re: [Amps] Amps Digest, Vol 32, Issue 12: Metric system
>
>
> > The US adopted the metric system in the late 1800's.
> > If you understand tolerances and the various systems of measurement, the
> > English system is really better for common work, you can't beat
> > fractions. Also, how do you order 1/2 of a pie at the bakery in the
> > metric system .5 of a pie?
> > Those schooled in the metric system think it is more "accurate" being
> > base 10 only. The English system is base 2, 3 and 10, I have an entire
> > machinists chest of micrometers, dial indicators, etc all marked in
> > 1/1000 or 1/10000 of an INCH. What about a pints a pound the world
around?
> > I was trying to build a 2M antenna out of the 2001 Handbook, the
> > dimensions are in MM, but I could never get it done, I would cut the
> > elements off to the correct MM length in the morning, but by afternoon
> > and 100 degree heat, they were too many MM long, so I had to cut them
> > again,next morning, I checked and they were too short so I had to throw
> > them all away and start again. I think I will go crazy building the
> > antenna, maybe I will just get a premade one and stop trying, hopefully
> > the instructions will be in English.
> > I wonder how far it really is the the North Pole?
> > Thanks, George W5GRG
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