On 17 Feb, 12:49, "christine" wrote:
"fergus" wrote in message

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On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 20:25:07 GMT, Cecil Moore
wrote:

wrote:
I forget the formula to find the wavelength. Was it the freq divided
by 468 or 234?

Wavelength is 984 divided by the frequency. 468/f is the
length of a 1/2WL dipole and 234/f is the length of a
1/4WL monopole both taking end effects into account.

I thought wavelength was speed of light divided by frequency. ie. 3 x
10^8/freq. Or is the 984 in non SI units?

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Fergus

no..in US they have strange formulas involving feets and inches... (sigh)
nothing to do with established SI

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Christine,
when I was young I went to the tool room in East London and asked
for 1 inch round by 6 foot and I was admonished up and down dale for
using the measurement inches. I went back to my lathe and worked it
out all again.
At the tool room I asked for 25mm by 2 metres length of steel only to
find out it only came in six foot lengths! Go to the top of the hill
in Greenwich park at the old observatory and on the wall you will see
examples of lengths from the old days so it was you that started this
mess.
By the way we don't have dual carrageways over here either and we
drive on the other side of the road. I understand Sweden has changed
over now, cars changed over on Sunday and trucks changed over the
following day. That week end is still known as black Sunday I
understand.
Art
on the other side of the pond

art wrote:
when I was young I went to the tool room in East London and asked
for 1 inch round by 6 foot and I was admonished up and down dale for
using the measurement inches.

Did you remind them that the inch was based on
the length of a thumb joint of an *ENGLISH* King?
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73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com

On 17 Feb, 14:58, Cecil Moore wrote:
art wrote:
when I was young I went to the tool room in East London and asked
for 1 inch round by 6 foot and I was admonished up and down dale for
using the measurement inches.

Did you remind them that the inch was based on
the length of a thumb joint of an *ENGLISH* King?
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73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com

Yup, that is what is on the wall i.e. a foot, a yard e.t.c so that
when there is a dispute in commerce one then goes to the wall and
compare to the standard. As for the King it may have been Henry the
Eight since he liked to hunt on the north (other )side of the river
which was called The Isle Of Dogs but now it is probably named Canary
wharf or something like that.Anne Boleyn lived a couple of miles away
so maybe that is how she met the King. The observatory which is along
side the meridian line at Greenwich was abandoned when London was
electrified which thus disturbed the heavens.
It was also at the northside of the river of this point that most of
the prisoners/convicts left for America to serve their sentences .
After the revolution the prisoners/convicts had to go to Australia to
serve their sentences. After a few years they had to scour the prisons
for women to send to Australia so the men became settlers.So Cecil you
could easily be an Aussie if your ancesters timed things right or you
may not be even around if you were related to Cardinal Moore but don't
lose your head over it like he did.
Art