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Re: Ping Ian Jackson 160m

From	brian <nospam@b-howie.co.uk>
Newsgroups	uk.net.news.management, uk.d-i-y, uk.radio.amateur, uk.local.glasgow
Subject	Re: Ping Ian Jackson 160m
Date	2019-08-20 07:31 +0100
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<3505FdSfP5WdFwK9@b-howie.co.uk> (permalink)
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In message <X12oBaSiXvWdFwul@brattleho.plus.com>, Ian Jackson 
<ianREMOVETHISjackson@g3ohx.co.uk> writes
>In message <%%B6F.32132$Zy3.24596@usenetxs.com>, Roger Breedle 
><rb@rmb.invalid> writes
>>On Mon, 19 Aug 2019 19:27:22 +0100
>>"NY" <me@privacy.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> "Stephen Cole" <usenet@stephenthomascole.com> wrote in message
>>> news:gs07k5Fu3ctU2@mid.individual.net...
>>> >>>>>>>>> Ian, you jokingly mentioned the problem with 70cms was it
>>> >>>>>>>>> was 159.3m
>>> >>>>>>>>> too short and that got me thinking about 160m. I've never
>>> >>>>>>>>> had a 160m
>>> >>>>>>>>> QSO in 29 years of activity. I've never been motivated to
>>> >>>>>>>>> try the band. So what makes 160m something of interest to
>>> >>>>>>>>> you after you've been active for 60 years or so?
>>>
>>> As a matter of interest, why do radio amateurs still refer to
>>> wavelength, when broadcast radio changed to referring to frequency in
>>> the 1970s-80s? I realise that c = f lambda, so one is related to the
>>> other by a factor of c.
>>>
>>> Do modern ham radios with synthesised tuning and digital displays
>>> actually display it as a wavelength in metres/centimetres, or do they
>>> display frequencies in kHz/MHz, but colloquially referred to as "in
>>> the 70 cm / 160 m band" as an approximation.
>>>
>>
>>Why aren't the wavelengths in yards?
>
>We will be changing back to yards in 1 Nov.

Lord Kelvin of Glasgow University was the champion of the metric system. 
The absolute  metric temperature scale is named after him.

By a remarkable coincidence ,the  non metric equivalent the Rankine 
scale is named after  a contemporary of his at Glasgow  William Rankine.

Http://www.engineeringhalloffame.org/profile-rankine.html

A proper Polymath  and champion of the non-metric system.

"Two of Rankine's somewhat reactionary verses from "The Three Foot Rule" 
which he sang at the British Association in 1864" Listed on the right

He was some kid.

Brian

-- 
Brian Howie

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Re: Ping Ian Jackson 160m Stephen Cole <usenet@stephenthomascole.com> - 2019-08-19 18:05 +0000
  Re: Ping Ian Jackson 160m "Jim GM4DHJ ..." <kinvig.netta@ntlworld.com> - 2019-08-19 19:13 +0100
    Re: Ping Ian Jackson 160m Stephen Cole <usenet@stephenthomascole.com> - 2019-08-19 18:20 +0000
      Re: Ping Ian Jackson 160m "Jim GM4DHJ ..." <kinvig.netta@ntlworld.com> - 2019-08-19 19:25 +0100
        Re: Ping Ian Jackson 160m Rambo <Rambo@thisaintreal.org> - 2019-08-19 19:52 +0100
      Re: Ping Ian Jackson 160m "NY" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2019-08-19 19:27 +0100
        Re: Ping Ian Jackson 160m "Jim GM4DHJ ..." <kinvig.netta@ntlworld.com> - 2019-08-19 19:29 +0100
          Re: Ping Ian Jackson 160m "NY" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2019-08-19 21:20 +0100
            Re: Ping Ian Jackson 160m "Jim GM4DHJ ..." <kinvig.netta@ntlworld.com> - 2019-08-19 21:27 +0100
        Re: Ping Ian Jackson 160m Roger Breedle <rb@rmb.invalid> - 2019-08-19 19:37 +0100
          Re: Ping Ian Jackson 160m Stephen Cole <usenet@stephenthomascole.com> - 2019-08-19 18:43 +0000
            Re: Ping Ian Jackson 160m Jim <jim@jim.jim.jim.invalid> - 2019-08-19 19:54 +0100
          Re: Ping Ian Jackson 160m Ian Jackson <ianREMOVETHISjackson@g3ohx.co.uk> - 2019-08-19 20:17 +0100
            Re: Ping Ian Jackson 160m brian <nospam@b-howie.co.uk> - 2019-08-20 07:31 +0100
              Re: Ping Ian Jackson 160m Stephen Cole <usenet@stephenthomascole.com> - 2019-08-20 06:41 +0000
        Re: Ping Ian Jackson 160m The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2019-08-19 20:49 +0100
        Re: Ping Ian Jackson 160m "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2019-08-20 11:07 +1000
          Re: Lonely Psychopathic Senile Ozzie Troll Alert! Peeler <trolltrap@valid.invalid> - 2019-08-20 10:30 +0200
  Re: Ping Ian Jackson 160m Rambo <Rambo@thisaintreal.org> - 2019-08-19 19:55 +0100
    Re: Ping Ian Jackson 160m Stephen Cole <usenet@stephenthomascole.com> - 2019-08-19 19:13 +0000

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