[TenTec] CW on 60m

k6se at juno.com k6se at juno.com
Thu May 15 22:47:15 EDT 2003


Ken Brown wrote:

"It is kHz, NOT KHz.  The international standard is that k stands for
kilo and upper case K is reserved for Kelvin.  So even though it seems
inconsistant we have Hz, kHZ, MHz, GHz."
==========
I still often find myself saying, "kilocycles" and "megacycles", so I
would've preferred that they used Thomas Alva Edison's AC genius
assistant Charles Proteus Steinmetz's initials (cps) for the unit of
frequency instead of Hertz.

73, de Earl, K6SE


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