Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23084 invoked from network); 23 Jan 2001 20:05:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO warrior-inbound.servers.plus.net) (212.159.14.227) by 10.226.25.101 with SMTP; 23 Jan 2001 20:05:36 -0000 Received: (qmail 22964 invoked from network); 23 Jan 2001 20:09:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO post.thorcom.com) (212.172.148.70) by warrior with SMTP; 23 Jan 2001 20:09:06 -0000 Received: from majordom by post.thorcom.com with local (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14L9fW-0002Zp-00 for rsgb_lf_group-outgoing@blacksheep.org; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 20:03:54 +0000 Received: from [194.73.73.138] (helo=ruthenium) by post.thorcom.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14L9fV-0002Zk-00 for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 20:03:53 +0000 Received: from [62.7.1.172] (helo=dave) by ruthenium with smtp (Exim 3.03 #83) id 14L9fJ-0001Qm-00 for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 20:03:41 +0000 Message-ID: <000301c08577$ccad8460$ac01073e@dave> From: "Dave Sergeant" To: "rsgb_lf_group" References: <65AECDF1F89AD411900400508BFC869F0D7550@pdw-mail-1.dera.gov.uk> Subject: LF: Re: RE:and related stuff Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 20:04:38 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org X-Listname: rsgb_lf_group Sender: >In my student days, the uni radio club (G3KMI) kept its accounts in >complex notation. The Real accounts that the Students union saw and >based their grants to us on, and the Imaginary money we got from trading >radio stuff at rallies etc. Ah, another ex KMI member among our midst - when I was there (68-71) we were still dealing in pounds, shillings and pence, I don't recall what the imaginary equivalent of these was. Although I accept the feelings of the 'anti metric' brigade there is not really a problem dealing in metric and most of us have been using it for years. When did you last go on the 256 foot band? And when I buy bananas I buy a bunch of four, it matters little how many pounds or kilograms it is. 73s Dave G3YMC dsergeant@btinternet.com dsergeant@iee.org http://www.btinternet.com/~dsergeant