[BC] Cycles don't Hurt...

[Paul Smith W4KNX]

Cycles.... now that has something to do with frequency, or that two wheeled
contraption I ride once in a while

Hertz.... Isnt that O.J. Simpson's car rental company???

Paul Smith
Sarasota, FL

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[mailto:broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net]On Behalf Of John Vodenik
Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 12:29 PM
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It's an OLD TIMERS thing.  You youngsters missed all the fun.

John @ VOA / Delano


----- Original Message -----
From: "JD Davis" <jdavis at lvradio.com>
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Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 8:22 AM
Subject: RE: [BC] Cycles don't Hurt...


> Those of us who are too young to remember don't get the whole cycles/hertz
> debate. Who cares what you call it really, as long as you know what it
> does.
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Burt I. Weiner
> Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 7:53 AM
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> Subject: [BC] Cycles don't Hurt...
>
> I agree that a honorarium is a nice thing but it has always struck me as
> odd to change cycle/s to Hertz.  After all, the wave goes through cycles
> not Hertz(es).  Someday we'll have to get use to watching the news on the
> Zworykin and not the telee.
>
> Burt
>
> Tesla is already a term used in measuring very strong magnetic fields.
>
> At 10:12 AM 7/8/2005 -0400, you wrote:
>> > jvodenik at sosinet.net writes:
>> >
>> > > I don't buy into this MHz and KHz stuff...it's still Kc and Mc for
>> > > me.
>> > >  Kinda like politically correct, thank goodness I'm NOT.
>> >
>> > Curious... why deny credit to Heinrich Hertz, who discovered these
>> "Hertzian
>> > Waves", by not using his name as the designator for frequency? It's
>> considered
>> > standard nomenclature. Why the "rebellion"?
>>
>>Naming cycles "Hertz" has no logical connection with RF or radiated energy
>>cycles. Please tell me how the Hertz dipole experiment relates to AC
> utility
>>power. If a name had to be applied to the humble number of alternations
>>per
>>unit of time, Tesla would have made far more sense because his
>>experimentations
>>included not only electrical cycles but mechanical resonance as well. He's
>>also
>>probably the only person who totally understood AC in all its forms from
> the
>>lowest to highest frequency. So Hertz gets cycles while Tesla is relegated
>>to the SI version of Gauss. Go figure.
>>
>>
>>Phil Alexander, CSRE, AMD
>>Broadcast Engineering Services and Technology
>>(a Div. of Advanced Parts Corporation)
>>Ph. (317) 335-2065   FAX (317) 335-
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