las wrote: > One last thing, will some other old fart in this list tell this old fart > why they changed the nomenclature for frequencies?? It used to be 20 to > 20K cps (cycles per second). That made sense. > > What the hell is a Hertz?? They wanted to honor one of the pioneers in radio communications. I think he did work on antennas or propogation. I'm a little fuzzy on that. As I recall, it happened about the time that did away with miky mikes, for condensers, they used to be listed as mmfd for micro-microfarad. They changed them from condenser, (because they don't really condense electricity) to capacitors, and changed mmfd to picofarad -- Jim Coon Not just another pretty mandolin picker. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] If Gibson made cars, would they sound so sweet? My first web page http://www.tir.com/~liteways ----------------------------------------------------------------- To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
