Mark Zenier wrote:

Oh well, you pushed a pet peeve button. Using meters for band designation
is either pointless nostalgia or a shibboleth, a secret password that
denotes group membership.

Mark Zenier Washington State resident



Interesting you should bring up shibboleth. For those who don't know
it's in Judges 12, verses 1-6. Seems 42,000 people died that day but
probably not all because they could not say shibboleth. They were
saying sibboleth, leaving out the first h.

The shibboleth was off your post.
Maybe Talamon was messing with me because I'm new and
wouldn't be able to figure out the meter designations he gave.
Been awhile since college.




"Al Patrick" wrote in message
...
Mark Zenier wrote:

Oh well, you pushed a pet peeve button. Using meters for band
designation
is either pointless nostalgia or a shibboleth, a secret password that
denotes group membership.

Mark Zenier Washington State resident



Interesting you should bring up shibboleth. For those who don't know it's
in Judges 12, verses 1-6. Seems 42,000 people died that day but probably
not all because they could not say shibboleth. They were saying
sibboleth, leaving out the first h.

In article ,
"JS" wrote:

The shibboleth was off your post. Maybe Talamon was messing with me
because I'm new and wouldn't be able to figure out the meter
designations he gave. Been awhile since college.

Snip

I'm not messing with you. This is basic terminology not something
exotic. The majority of short wave broadcasts occur in designated bands
of frequencies. The bands are identified by the inverse of a rounded
frequency in the band. This is how the broadcast bands are identified.

wavelength = speed of propagation/frequency

In oder to calculate in meters the formula is
wavelength in meters = (300 meters/sec) / (frequency in MHz/sec)

so 60 meters is 5 MHz. The 60 meter band is 4.750 MHz to 5.060 MHz

BAND MEGAHERTZ (MHz) KILOHERTZ (KHz)

120 m 2.300-2.500 MHz 2300-2500 KHz
90 m 3.20-3.40 MHz 3200-3400 KHz
75 m 3.90-4.00 MHz 3900-4000 KHz
60 m 4.750-5.060 MHz 4750-5060 KHz
49 m 5.950-6.20 MHz 5950-6200 KHz
41 m 7.10-7.60 MHz 7100-7600 KHz
31 m 9.20-9.90 MHz 9500-9900 KHz
25 m 11.600-12.200 MHz 11600-12100 KHz
22 m 13.570-13.870 MHz 13570-13870 KHz
19 m 15.10-15.80 MHz 15100-15800 KHz
16 m 17.480-17.90 MHz 17480-17900 KHz
13 m 21.450-21.850 MHz 21450-21850 KHz
11 m 25.60-26.10 MHz 25600-26100 KHz

By knowing the wavelength of a frequency you get an understanding of the
size of the resonant antenna to receive it.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

Al Patrick wrote:

Mark Zenier wrote:

Oh well, you pushed a pet peeve button. Using meters for band designation
is either pointless nostalgia or a shibboleth, a secret password that
denotes group membership.

Mark Zenier Washington State resident



Interesting you should bring up shibboleth. For those who don't know
it's in Judges 12, verses 1-6. Seems 42,000 people died that day but
probably not all because they could not say shibboleth. They were
saying sibboleth, leaving out the first h.

Yeah, YHWH is one nasty ****er. According to one Bible translation, he
killed 70,000 people because they didn't sufficiently rejoice when they
heard His Name. Strange thing is, most Jews I've met have been much
nicer than their god.


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In article ,
Al Patrick wrote:
Mark Zenier wrote:
Oh well, you pushed a pet peeve button. Using meters for band designation
is either pointless nostalgia or a shibboleth, a secret password that
denotes group membership.

Interesting you should bring up shibboleth. For those who don't know
it's in Judges 12, verses 1-6. Seems 42,000 people died that day but
probably not all because they could not say shibboleth. They were
saying sibboleth, leaving out the first h.

It happened more than once in history. During a revolt on Corsica
or Sardinia they had a variant pronunciation for some kind of bean
(vegetable) that got your throat slit if you didn't say it the right way.
"ciciri" or some thing like that.

Mark Zenier Washington State resident