[aprssig] Re: Metric [[furlongs per fortnight]]

Jan T. Pharo la2bba at jpharo.net
Fri Sep 7 05:29:20 EDT 2007


Ben Lindner <vk5jfk at activ8.net.au>, Fri, 07 Sep 2007 17:27:05 +0930:

>Jan
>
>We will have to agree to disagree on this one

Well, probably.
And APRS will work anyway, and neither inches nor feet are useful for
measuring repeater (or digipeater) ranges.
>
>Ben
>
>Jan T. Pharo wrote:
>> Ben Lindner <vk5jfk at activ8.net.au>, Fri, 07 Sep 2007 05:13:38 +0930:
>>
>>   
>>> A kilo foot would be 1012 inches correct :-)
>>>     
>>
>> Hardly, if "kilo" is 1000 (it is).
>> a foot is 12 inches.
>> a kilofoot (k') is 1000' i.e. 12000".
>>

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73 de Jan, LA2BBA
Hvaler, Norway




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