[OZAPRS] Homebrew HF APRS transmitter

Norm, VK3XCI vk3xci at aanet.com.au
Fri Jul 8 09:49:17 EST 2011


No he doesn't remember the 22 mete cricket pitch, he remembers the 22 YARD 
cricket pitch :P

Engineering students haven't changed since I was there... in a distant universe 
in a time long past !!!! I remember a 1953 Humber 10 with the (Smiths) speedo 
calibrated in furlongs per fornight.

In fact, your assessment for today is to recalibrate a 270 degree, 80 mph 
speedometer with 1mph divisions, into furlongs per fortnight(fpf). Use a 
suitable scale and mark the speed limits at 30mph and 50 mph. what is the 
subtended angle between each scale division?


73 de Norm, VK3XCI
Mildura, Australia
The Wintersun City
QF15bt.

On 8/07/2011 6:31 AM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> Jeeze, I haven't seen furlongs/fortnight for ages.
>
> At least one Unix "units" program I used knew about those terms, along
> with pecks, rods, poles, and perches.
>
> My favourite test was:
>
> I have: c (speed of light)
> I want: furlongs/fortnight
>
> just to see whether it overflowed :-)
>
> And to get even further off-topic, chains are actively in use apart from
> cricket pitches; they describe the curvature of a railway track.
>
> -- Dave, who remembers the 22-metre cricket pitch
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