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Originally Posted by Station X
The metric system of measurement goes back more than 200 years and had nothing to do with the EU.
Do your radios have wavelengths in feet or yards?
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Not ban EU gripe, just a poke at how we're slowly being "conned" into metricism. My old radio I know not- I tune them in multiples of HZ- either Khz/or MHz. ( But then some young blood is off on his Megacycle to court his girlfriend ( I'll refrain from abbreviations as some posters don't know them) of unknown origin, who was very receive to his transmissions.
Back on measuring, Graham- I think my old set is set to refer to metres, but I'd prefer to use something British , rather than something based on an an old French Kings thumb.