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From: "Dick Rollema" <d.w.rollema@freeler.nl>
To: "LF-Group" <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>
Subject: LF: Terms
Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 12:54:29 +0200
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To All from PA0SE

On my question about the proper way of writing units in English/American I
received the following reply from the Editor of RadCom.

73, Dick, PA0SE


Hello, Dick.

It is RadCom style to use the following:

10V or 10 volt(s), 5A or 5 amp(s), 2W or 2 watt(s).
With IF, RF and AF, capital letters and no dots.
With frequency, no gap between the number and the units, ie
800Hz, 136kHz, 21MHz.

Steve White, G3ZVW


> In The Netherlands we write 5 A, but 5 ampère, 10 V but 10 volt. So in
> general the unit is written with a capital when abbreviated but with a
>lower case when written in full. And with a space between figure and unit.
>
> What is correct in English or American, 3 V or 3V?.  Same question for 10
> amp, 10amp, 10Amp, 10Amps?, etc.
>
> And what about rf or RF? if, IF, i.f. or I.F. (intermediate frequency)
>etc.?

>
> 73, Dick, PA0SE