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Re: Ping Ian Jackson 160m

From	"Jim GM4DHJ ..." <kinvig.netta@ntlworld.com>
Newsgroups	uk.net.news.management, uk.d-i-y, uk.radio.amateur, uk.local.glasgow
Subject	Re: Ping Ian Jackson 160m
Date	2019-08-19 21:27 +0100
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<qjf0no$jo5$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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"NY" <me@privacy.invalid> wrote in message 
news:qjf0ca$hl4$1@dont-email.me...
> "Jim GM4DHJ ..." <kinvig.netta@ntlworld.com> wrote in message 
> news:qjepqp$7ji$1@dont-email.me...
>>
>> "NY" <me@privacy.invalid> wrote in message 
>> news:qjepnp$73l$1@dont-email.me...
>>> 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.
>>
>> it's Mc/s actually ....
>
> LOL. Of course. I'd completely forgotten about old radio stations using 
> the term "c/s" rather than "Hz".
>
> "c/s" is somewhat reminiscent of old editions of Wireless World and other 
> similar magazines which had a strange house style of putting a full stop 
> after every single letter of an abbreviation or unit, and always using 
> lower-case letters (so "c./s." rather than "c/s", and e.p.r.o.m." rather 
> than "EPROM".
yes much better..I mean what does Hertz mean anyway...some German 
punter........

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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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