Need some smartness from U folks

[Michael NØXY]

Looking at a trace of a sine wave on an oscilloscope, starting at some 
point on the waveform, then following it completely through until it is 
at the same amplitude, and going the same direction as where you started 
is one cycle. One complete cycle is how you think of it, regardless of 
how fast or slow it repeats.

Now when you start talking about how many times it repeats in one 
second, THEN you are talking about frequency and the term Hertz is used.

I was around when cps was used. It does not bother me a bit that they 
honored Mr. Hertz the way they did. Nobody bitches about Ohms, Volts, 
Amperes, or Joules, why the big hangup with Hertz?

My take on it is there are a lot of people that like to type KC, and 
then say "Oh, I mean kHz" just to show that they are from the old 
school, meaning they are important in their own minds, old timers, more 
experienced than others, smarter... put in your own word.

Personally, I just laugh at them when they do it. Nobody in the 
electronics industry where I earn a living says KC, MC, or any other C 
unless of course they are describing an event they are seeing on the 
screen of a scope.

If someone wants to say KC, I think it is fine, no problem for me. But 
to actually take the time to consciously type it as KC, then correct 
themselves, is pretty strange IMO.

I won't live to see it, but eventually all the self correcting KC to 
kHz'ers will be dead and folks won't have to endure them any more.

Probably not a real popular thing to say on this list, but what the 
heck, it is the truth.

Michael
N0XY

  > This brings up a question that has puzzled me for quite
> some time:  If one is looking at an oscilloscope display
> of a sine wave and wants to talk about an individual,
> complete movement of the trace in both the positive
> and negative directions, what does one call it?
> 
> Previously one would have called it an individual *cycle*
> of the waveform.  However, nowadays with our electrical
> units honoring dead Europeans so much, and particularly
> one Heinrich Hertz, should one use the honorifically correct
> term of *hertz-second* instead?
> 
> The expiring mind of K7JEB wants to know.....
> 
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