RE: [amsat-bb] Re: Re: Notation of Time...

["WL7M" <joe@xxxxxxx>]

One easy thing to remember about degree conversion:  -40 F 
WL7M

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From: kd9kc@elp.rr.com
Date: Monday, June 17, 2002 18:37:52
To: 'Tony Langdon'; amsat-bb@AMSAT.Org
Subject: RE: [amsat-bb] Re: Re: Notation of Time...


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> From: owner-AMSAT-BB@AMSAT.Org [mailto:owner-AMSAT-BB@AMSAT.Org]On
> Behalf Of Tony Langdon
> Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 11:55 PM
> To: 'WL7M'; k9ij@vx5.com; amsat-bb@AMSAT.Org; 
> uschndr@zedat.fu-berlin.de
> Subject: RE: [amsat-bb] Re: Re: Notation of Time...
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> 
> 
> It's interesting to watch this group, and everyone, even the 
> US hams always speak in metric terms when it comes to satellite 
> orbital parameters (worked xxx while AO-40 was at 40,000km, etc).
> 
> Seems it's already creeping in over there...

And as someone mentioned earlier, military personnell. I was
a student of the metric system in the early 70s, before it
was so widely known to us. I did two full tours of Germany, and
a few shorter tours in parts of Asia (East ans West), and
really became familiar with it as a navigation tool, as well as
a part of the local economy.

The part I hate most... converting degrees F to degrees C,
or the other way. Just never did get comfortable with that.

Mike. KD9KC
El Paso, TX.
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