In message , Dave
writes
Brian Hill wrote:
"Brian Denley" wrote in message
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You wont find megacycles on your Drake either. It's been MHz for decades.
Just divide 300 by the frequency in Mhz (megahertz) to get the
wavelength in meters.
example: 300 / 9.600 Mhz = 31.25 meters ..... it's in the 31
meter SWL band.

-- Brian Denley
http://home.comcast.net/~b.denley/index.html

"dave" wrote in message
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I can't find "meters" anywhere on my Drake. Can you translate that
into megacycles?

Megacycles and megahertz are the same thing. Megacycles is old
school. But you knew that Bri. Just thought I'd mention it for the
younger crowd.

Megacycles per second

Maybe I'm wrong, but I seem to recall that, way back when it was decided
that we should use Hertz (Hz) instead of cycles per second (c/s), it was
to be only for electrical units. There was no mention of the change
applying to the vibration/oscillation of non-electrical things, so these
should have stayed in c/s. For example, the frequency of an audio signal
applied to the voice coil of a loud speaker would be in Hz. The cone
would vibrate in c/s. However, Hz now seems to be applied universally.
--
Ian