[Amps] RE : Metric system

hermans on4kj at skynet.be
Sat Aug 6 15:38:14 EDT 2005


40 yy
Just move to our tenth satellite Keith, your age will fall back to about
0.071 years....
Jos  72 yy

-----Message d'origine-----
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la part de Keith Dutson
Envoyé : vendredi 5 août 2005 18:37
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Objet : Re: [Amps] Metric system

Being a programmer I prefer base 16 (hexadecimal).  Next January I will
celebrate 40th birthday. <grin>

73, Keith NM5G

-----Original Message-----
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On
Behalf Of Steve Thompson
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 11:16 AM
To: amps at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [Amps] Metric system



Colin Lamb wrote:
> I am getting to the age when I would like to convert from the present
system of measuring age in years to something with a bit more time
between
anniversaries - something like 500 days per measurement, or so.  Not
sure if
converting will allow retroactive application, but even applied to the
future would be acceptable.  

Without telling anyone, I switched to counting in 12s (Babylonian?) for
'special' birthdays. Everyone thinks it's going to be a big deal when I
hit
50, but I'm looking at 60 as the next big party.
> Perhaps aging can be based upon time between amplifiers, or time taken
to
construct amplifiers.  

That would make me extrememly young, or extremely old, depending on
which
way it works :-)

Steve
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