[TenTec] Fwd: Re: hz / KC Correction

Barry N1EU barry.n1eu at gmail.com
Fri Mar 27 12:26:29 EDT 2015


Great, now we need another conversion factor . . .

On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 12:00 PM, Dave Edwards <kd2e at comcast.net> wrote:

> Wait....that got changed???
>
> ..Dave
>
>
>
> On 3/27/15 11:56 AM, Larry Belcher wrote:
>
>> I'm still trying to deal with UTC from GMT.  Maybe that is why they call
>> us "old timers".
>>
>> Larry, K4CL
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>>
>>
>>
>> At 11:38 AM 3/27/2015, you wrote:
>>
>> Cycle per Second is not a unit of measure,
>> it is a description.
>>
>> Heinrich Cycle ?
>> Pierre Second ?
>>
>> I suppose you could say that Second is
>> a unit of measure since it has a more fundamental
>> definition:
>>
>> The second is the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of
>> the radiation corresponding to the transition between the
>> two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium 133 atom.
>>
>> If we define that cesium thing as the Howard (just humor me),
>> 1 kc is actually  9,192,631.77 Howards
>>
>> QRPers operate around 64 GigaHowards
>>
>> :-P
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>>
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>>
>> On 3/27/2015 10:14 AM, Jerry wrote:
>> > I forgot my sig. sorry :(
>> >
>> > Jerry Hubbard
>> > NOPGG
>> >
>> >
>> > -------- Original Message --------
>> > Subject:     Re: [TenTec] hz / KC
>> > Date:     Fri, 27 Mar 2015 10:11:52 -0500
>> > From:     Jerry <hubbardjw at gmail.com>
>> > To:     Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec at contesting.com>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Very sad today. Could not find cycle per second in the NIST "Guide for
>> the
>> > Use of the International System of Units (SI)".
>> >
>> > For the *youth* on the list:
>> >
>> > Cycle per second (CPS)
>> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycle_per_second
>> >
>> > Cycles per instruction
>> >
>> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycles_per_instruction
>> >
>> > Why not Hz per instruction? :-\
>> >
>> > Back to Peter, Paul, and Mary for my inter hippie.
>> >
>> > http://www.peterpaulandmary.com/
>> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter,_Paul_and_Mary
>> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippie
>> >
>> > Who wants to be political correct!
>> >
>> > On 03/27/2015 08:29 AM, Tom Pennebaker wrote:
>> >> I suggest for those that can't accept anything but hz....catch the
>> next plane / boat out of this country....have a good life!!
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