[Amps] Metric system

[Colin Lamb]

I recall that one of the first transatlantic television transmissions was designed to reflect off an orbiting reflector.  It was live between London and the US.  The screens went blank.  Turns out the engineers were smart enough to realize that circular polarization reverses polarity upon reflection, but not thorough enough to learn that a British right hand thread is an American left hand thread.  Classic case of the audience getting screwed by a thread.  

Colin  K7FM   

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Chadwick <g3rzp at g3rzp.wanadoo.co.uk>
Sent: Aug 4, 2005 11:09 AM
To: Osten B Magnusson <sm5dqc at areteadsl.se>, Patrick Hoppe <phoppe at wi.rr.com>, 
	"'Dr. David Kirkby'" <david.kirkby at onetel.net>, amps at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [Amps] Metric system

Personally, I find working to 0.001 inch easier than working to 4 microns. This is because I'm working to a single unit, rather than a number of them.
Beer is far better in 20ounce pints than 16 ounce, for obvious reasons. However, there are some reasonable establishments in the US that serve quite good beer in 20ounce pints.......
Remember the airliner in Canada that had to do a dead stick landing because of the pounds/kilograms of fuel problem? Plus the space probe?
But for real fun, try integrated circuit design with feature sizes in microns and chip sizes in thousandths of an inch......

73

Peter GW3RZP/P
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