[TenTec] ft/m or m/ft?

[Mike Hyder -N4NT-]

For anyone interested, a free program named "Convert" by Josh Madison can 
figure all this stuff out.  More information here: 
http://www.joshmadison.com/software/convert/

I've used it a long time and like it.

NASA uses it.

73, Mike N4NT

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Tippett" <btippett at alum.mit.edu>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 7:47 PM
Subject: [TenTec] ft/m or m/ft?


DJ0IP wrote:
 >To be almost exact it is 3.05 ft. (and exactly 3.048 ft.)

         Your memory is wrong Rick...but I know
how you got there because I recognized the
"3048" sequence.  That is actually .3048 m/ft,
not 3.048 ft/m.  As someone else stated the
actual value of ft/m is 3.281 ft, which comes
from 1/.3048.  So a meter is about 10% longer
(~3.3') than a yard (3.0 ft).

                                         73,  Bill  W4ZV