Conversions/calculator site extraordinaire

[Steve Hostetler]

  I use this site at work for converting various units into SI and I
thought many here might find it useful. It’s pretty impressive…

http://www.sengpielaudio.com/Calculations03.htm


73, steve, kx7r



_______________________________________________
Elecraft mailing list
Post to: [hidden email]
You must be a subscriber to post to the list.
Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.):
 http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft   

Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm
Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com

[Nick Waterman]

Steve Hostetler wrote:
>  I use this site at work for converting various units into SI and I
> thought many here might find it useful. It’s pretty impressive…
>
> http://www.sengpielaudio.com/Calculations03.htm

There's a great program for Linux (and probably many other OSes) called
"units", works like this:

You have: 0.1 million furlongs per fortnight
You want: kph
        * 59.871429
        / 0.016702458

... which basically means nearly 60 kph   :-)

You can remind yourselves what the bands are too:
You have: c / 144MHz
You want: m
        * 2.0818921
        / 0.4803323

That's probably 2m then   :-)

--
"Nosey" Nick Waterman, G7RZQ, K2 #5209.
use Std::Disclaimer;    [hidden email]
Please sponsor me! http://www.justgiving.com/noseynick
Mental backup in progress - Do Not Disturb!
_______________________________________________
Elecraft mailing list
Post to: [hidden email]
You must be a subscriber to post to the list.
Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.):
 http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft   

Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm
Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com

[Craig Rairdin]

Just type ".1 million furlongs per fortnight in kph" into Google and it will
tell you the answer (59.8714286 kph).

You can even text it to them (GOOGLE=466453) from your phone if you're not
near a computer.

Craig
NZ0R

-----Original Message-----
From: [hidden email]
[mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Nick Waterman
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 4:09 PM
To: Steve Hostetler
Cc: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Conversions/calculator site extraordinaire


Steve Hostetler wrote:
>  I use this site at work for converting various units into SI and I
> thought many here might find it useful. It's pretty impressive.
>
> http://www.sengpielaudio.com/Calculations03.htm

There's a great program for Linux (and probably many other OSes) called
"units", works like this:

You have: 0.1 million furlongs per fortnight
You want: kph
        * 59.871429
        / 0.016702458

... which basically means nearly 60 kph   :-)

You can remind yourselves what the bands are too:
You have: c / 144MHz
You want: m
        * 2.0818921
        / 0.4803323

That's probably 2m then   :-)

--
"Nosey" Nick Waterman, G7RZQ, K2 #5209.
use Std::Disclaimer;    [hidden email]
Please sponsor me! http://www.justgiving.com/noseynick
Mental backup in progress - Do Not Disturb!
_______________________________________________
Elecraft mailing list
Post to: [hidden email]
You must be a subscriber to post to the list.
Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.):
 http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft   

Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm
Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com

_______________________________________________
Elecraft mailing list
Post to: [hidden email]
You must be a subscriber to post to the list.
Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.):
 http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft   

Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm
Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com

[Leigh L. Klotz Jr WA5ZNU]

For a good time, try searching for the "miles per watt" award page.  
Google helfully reduces it to fundamental units.  Speaking od which, the
award is apprently venerable, though it has been pointed out the Friis
equation is not linear.
73,
Leigh/WA5ZNU
On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 2:50 pm, Craig Rairdin wrote:
> Just type ".1 million furlongs per fortnight in kph" into Google and it
> will
> tell you the answer (59.8714286 kph).
_______________________________________________
Elecraft mailing list
Post to: [hidden email]
You must be a subscriber to post to the list.
Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.):
 http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft   

Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm
Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com

[John Harper AE5X]

Other handy conversions:


1. Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter = Eskimo Pi

2. 2000 pounds of Chinese soup = Won ton

3. 1 millionth of a mouthwash = 1 microscope

4. Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement = 1
bananosecond

5. Weight an evangelist carries with God = 1 billigram

6. Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour = Knotfurlong

7. 364.25 days of drinking low calorie beer = 1 Lite year

8. 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Serling

9. Half a large intestine = 1 semicolon

10. 1,000,000 aches = 1 megahurtz

11. Basic unit of laryngitis - 1 hoarsepower

12. Shortest distance between two jokes - a straight line

13. 453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake

14. 1 million microphones = 1 megaphone

15. 1 million bicycles = 1 megacycles

16. 365.25 days = 1 unicycle

17. 2000 mockingbirds = two kilomockingbirds

18. 10 cards = 1 decacard

19. 52 cards = 1 deckacard

20. 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 fig Newton

21. 1000 grams of wet socks = 1 literhosen

22. 1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche

23. 1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin

24. 10 rations = 1 decaration

25. 100 rations = 1 C-ration

26. 2 monograms = 1 diagram

27. 8 nickels = 2 paradigms

28. 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University
Hospital = 1 I.V. League


John Harper AE5X
Portable QRP: http://www.ae5x.com




_______________________________________________
Elecraft mailing list
Post to: [hidden email]
You must be a subscriber to post to the list.
Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.):
 http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft   

Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm
Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com