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Old 21st Mar 2017, 1:06 am   #15
Oldcodger
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Default Re: Light work bench.

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Originally Posted by Station X View Post
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?
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.
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