From: jl@glen--canyon.com
On Sat, 15 Nov 2025 12:29:32 -0500, "Edward Rawde"
wrote:
>"Bill Sloman" wrote in message news:10fa
47$3htrq$1@dont-email.me...
>> On 15/11/2025 8:23 pm, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
>>> Bill Sloman wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 15/11/2025 4:46 am, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> [...]
>...
>>>
>>> When you get down to signals as low as -150 dBm there will be Johnson
>>> noise and intermodulation products contributed by the components within
>>> the oscillator. Selecting individual harmonics with a narrow-band
>>> filter will give an unrealistic number that doesn't represent the total
>>> unwanted output.
>>>
>>>> You are comparing apples and pears as your "5 Kc.s bandwidth" makes
>>>> clear. if you have been cribbing from a more modern source it would have
>>>> been a 5kHz bandwidth.
>>>
>>> You have no idea what I did, so stop posting offensive nonsense.
>>
>> I'm pretty confident that you don't have much of an idea what you did
either. That's probably offensive, but sadly it isn't
>> nonsense.
>>
>
>I can remember one of the presenters on
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomorrow%27s_World
>deliberately saying cycles per second instead of Hz because that expressed
>what he wanted to say.
>Naming units after people is not very sensible in my view because it just adds
>confusion. cycles/s or cycles*s^-1 is fine with me.
>Then it becomes trivial to see how it can be turned into seconds per cycle,
>should there be a need to do that.
>Why doesn't 1 mile per hour have a unit named after it?
>Perhaps we should call it 1 Sloman.
That would be one mile per day.
John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
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