[BC] radio terminology question

[Bill Brister]

The time frame for the change is around 1970. The change was made to honor
Heinrich Hertz the German physicist who discovered the principle.

 

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[mailto:broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Donna Halper
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Subject: [BC] radio terminology question

I was wondering-- when I was a kid, we used to refer to the AM frequencies 
as Kilocycles (kc), and all of the old radio books I collect use this 
term.  At what point did the name get changed to Kilohertz (kH) and what 
was the reason for the change? 


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