[BC] Cycles don't Hurt...

Mike McCarthy Towers
Sat Jul 9 06:21:25 CDT 2005


When speaking, it's usually "K-C's" regardless of whether it's RF or audio.

MM

At 02:00 PM 7/8/2005 -0700, you wrote:
>         Back in the 60's when I entered the Air Force, in my Electronic
>Intelligence Career field we were taught in Cycles at Keesler, but taught
>that they were also called Hertz.  When I came out of instructor school, the
>Air Training command made us write all our lessons plans in Hertz, then the
>AF Security service who took all our graduates, made us go back to Cycles
>exclusively.  Within a few months, the National Security Agency, who took
>all of AF security services output, made us go back to Hertz. After about
>three re-writes of our lesson plans, we all just taught both and used both.
>But I still find myself talking about kaycees even though I usually use
>Hertz for the other stuff.
>Bill
>
>Bill Croghan CPBE WB?KSW
>Chief Engineer,
>KOMP/KXPT/KENO/KBAD
>Lotus Broadcasting
>Las Vegas, NV
>Email to loteng (at) lvradio.com
>Phone 702-315-3030
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