[BC] To Hz or not to Hz? (WAS:WLW--500 kW?)

[John Vodenik]

There was a medium wave DXer, Dick Cooper who said it best:

"Damn the college guy who changed kilocycles to kiloHertz!  Some smart-aleck 
from MIT, I suppose.  You had a good word there, and it's self-explanatory 
for guys like me, I can understand it.  I know who Hertz was; he didn't 
deserve the honor any more than the rest of us".

John, the old radio flatuant @ VOA / Delano




> In a message dated 07/05/2005 07:33:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> jvodenik at sosinet.net writes:
>
>> I don't buy into this MHz and KHz stuff...it's still Kc and Mc for me.
>>  Kinda like politically correct, thank goodness I'm NOT.
>
> Curious... why deny credit to Heinrich Hertz, who discovered these 
> "Hertzian
> Waves", by not using his name as the designator for frequency? It's 
> considered
> standard nomenclature. Why the "rebellion"?
>
> Willie...
>
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