Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 17:40:39 -0800 From: Fred Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Not to rain on anyone's parade, but I think I remember the terms and abbreviations were: Microfarads (mf) as in "a 0.1mf wax impregnated paper condenser" Actually, what you're showing as an "m" was a lower-case Greek Mu. "m" means "milli", an order of magnitude different. Micromicrofarads (mmf) as in a "3-section 365mmf air variable condenser for the TRF receiver. As I recall, it generally was kilocycles (kc or kcs) through ten meters, and thereafter megacycles (mc or mcs) up to what is now known as 1GHz (which was called a kilomegacycle [kmcs]). Anything above a few kilomegacycles hadn't been invented yet. And "cycles" for frequency, by itself means very little. The proper term was "cycles per second", which is what "Hertz" replaces, not just "cycles" I don't think Mr. Hertz used "cycles" since he was a scientist, and would think accuracy of expression was important, but he probably used "cycles per second". 73, doug _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
