On line there are a great bunch of Metric/Imperial/Other conversion
engines - it is useful for an amateur to have some of these in their
bookmarks:
http://www.sciencemadesimple.com/conversions.html
http://www.onlineconversion.com/
http://www.metric-conversions.org/
and even Google
http://www.google.com/ (if you enter say "3 meters in feet" Google returns
"3 meters = 9.84251969 feet" - likewise if you enter "1.5 kilowatts in
joules/seconds" Google returns "1.5 kilowatts = 1 500 joules / seconds"!!)
There are a lot of odd units out there that you may have to do some research
on if the engines don't have them preprogramed. None seemed to handle
specialty units like "irons" (48 irons equal one inch or 2.54 centimeters)
which is a traditional measure of the leather used in the soles of welted
shoes.
Posting Metric and US/Imperial units side by side is a great suggestion!
BTW I've completed my last 450 QSOs using a vertical dipole (Gap Titan DX)
driven by a Pegasus. Works fine for me!
73
Steve
KB9GPN
>
> Think of a meter as a long yard or slightly over 3' and it's easy to
> visualize.....
> I have often dearly wished we were on metric on this side of the
> pond...makes it a lot easier to do the math in my head...but then, I am a
> retired engineering aide!
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joseph A. & Ruth O. Ryan" <ablee@bellsouth.net>
> To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 8:50 AM
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Vertical Dipole "Fringe Benefits"
>
>
> > Rick:
> >
> > A humble suggestion re your interesting e-mails re antennas
> (including the
> > vert. dipole)...
> > Assuming that a majority of the reflector members are located
> here in the
> > USA, might
> > you consider using the old fashioned measurement system, or at
> least both.
> > Most folks in the USA have not, and probably won't in the next
> 20-50 years
> > (if ever), converted
> > to, or use, the metric system of measuring things (except those
> > technocrats
> > that lurk in the
> > halls of 'white tower' edifices (ie MIT, Yale, Princeton, etc).
> > Reading your dissertations causes this old man to have his eyes 'glaze'
> > over - and doesn't easily
> > translate.
> > Just a friendly suggestion.
> >
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