Yes Mal, and Farad is another "someones name". CENTIMETRES is the proper unit
for capacitance which can be measured with a ruler and it is easy to scale to
other units of length, for example yards, inches or fathoms.

73

back to the 140 feet band.

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mal hamilton wrote:
> Tony
> In the electronic context.
> There are CYCLES, KILOCYCLES and MEGACYCLES all related to FREQUENCY of
> OCCURENCE and can be observed on a 'Scope for example but what does a HERTZ
> look like.
> Hertz is a meaningless label in fact its someones Name and is technically
> inapproapriat when describing Frequency.
> Rumour has it that one EU member state wants a RESISTOR renamed BANSHEE
> 
> G3KEV