[Amps] Hertz

Bob Nielsen nielsen at oz.net
Tue Apr 17 21:47:48 EDT 2007


That's kilomegawatts for us OFs.  It's been a while since I watched  
that movie so I don't know if he used it in the 1955 sequences, but  
the "giga" prefix wasn't commonly used until a few years later.

Bob, N7XY

On Apr 17, 2007, at 5:20 PM, Robert Bonner wrote:

> Best utilized by Dr. Emmitt Brown in the form of 1.21 JIGAWATTS.
>
> BOB DD
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> Behalf Of The Bowers
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> Subject: [Amps] Hertz
>
> A few days ago, some guy (HAD to be a graybeard) had the audacity  
> to refer
> to frequency in terms of megacycles. While this may be considered  
> by many to
> be a grievous social error, I would remind you all that:
>
>
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> AC does not Hertz, it cycles.
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>
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> The only time it Hertz is when you touch it.
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> 73's,
>
>
>
> Dana W6TUO
>
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