HW-101 CW filter

[Alan Adelman]

I remember when the naming change took place, QST or maybe HR  published a very funny chart for converting cycles to hertz...

--- On Sun, 5/3/09, George Babits <gbabits at CUSTERTEL.NET> wrote:

From: George Babits <gbabits at CUSTERTEL.NET>
Subject: Re: HW-101 CW filter
To: HEATH at LISTS.TEMPE.GOV
Date: Sunday, May 3, 2009, 8:06 AM

Hi Kent,

With the exception of radios that have a winky-blinky instead of a tuning dial, all my equipment is calibrated in megacycles and kilocycles.  Cycles is what we are talking about here.  My understanding is that hz stands for Hertz and I think that was a man's name!  They could have just as well called them "Marconies" and abreviated that as Mc so then a million Marconies would have been MMc and a thousand would be KMc.  Neat huh!  And you would have to differentiate screwdrivers.  The "Smith" would have to be a common screw driver as we have a Phillips; or that could be a a Smith Phillips.

I have to also own up to having a "Home," or "fixed" station rather than a base station.  Police, fire, taxis, and CB'ers have base stations.

Ah the illusion of words,
George
W7HDL 
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