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Subject: | [TenTec] CW on 60m |
From: | k6se@juno.com (k6se@juno.com) |
Date: | Fri May 16 01:00:55 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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