On Oct 22, 2011, at 3:24 PM, Gerhard Fiedler wrote:

> the biggest problem with the use of traditional (not only English or
> US) units is the tendency of people who use them to work with "magic
> formulas" and not use proper units with their calculations

You mean like "to get the length of your dipole antenna, divide 468 by =20
the frequency"?
(which gives you the length in feet, of course.)  One of the reasons I =20
never became a ham, sort-of.)
http://www.radioqth.net/AntennaLength.aspx

I like computing with units, except for (theoretically) needing to =20
know the units of assorted universal constants, which sometimes get =20
really ugly...

Not terribly happy that even metric has its variations (cgs vs mks vs =20
si, for instance.)  But at least if you get those wrong, you're likely =20
to be off by enough that you'd notice...

BillW

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