<html><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div aria-label="Compose body">Some years ago, the Standard Oil Company operated gas stations under the ESSO (now Exxon) label.</div><div aria-label="Compose body">They decided they would form the <em>avant garde</em> in moving the U.S. toward the metric system, and modded</div><div aria-label="Compose body">all their gas pumps to read in liters. (Note spelling.)</div><div aria-label="Compose body"><br></div><div aria-label="Compose body">The almost universal reaction of the American public was: "What the *#@$# is a "liter"?</div><div aria-label="Compose body"><br></div><div aria-label="Compose body">The pumps were quickly converted back to gallons--U.S., not Imperial--and have remained so ever since. :-)</div><div aria-label="Compose body"><br></div><div aria-label="Compose body">Dick</div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Phil via Tacos" <tacos@amrad.org><br><b>To: </b>"Tacos AMRAD" <tacos@amrad.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, March 17, 2016 2:13:20 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: Path Loss 101<br><div><br></div>Let's face it guys, the last chance you colonials had to shake off the remaining shackles of Imperialism was the metric system, and you blew it! :-)<div><br></div><div>Phil M1GWZ (in metres. Note spelling.)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 17 Mar 2016, at 17:58, Terry N4TLF wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote><div style="WORD-WRAP: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space" dir="ltr" data-mce-style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="ltr"><div style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial'; COLOR: #000000" data-mce-style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial'; color: #000000;"><div>No problem Dick, it’s not like you are heading to Mars or anything.....</div><div>Terry, N4TLF</div><div> </div><div style="FONT-SIZE: small; TEXT-DECORATION: none; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri"; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #000000; FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline" data-mce-style="font-size: small; text-decoration: none; font-family: 'Calibri'; font-weight: normal; color: #000000; font-style: normal; display: inline;"><div style="FONT: 10pt tahoma" data-mce-style="font: 10pt tahoma;"><div> </div><div style="BACKGROUND: #f5f5f5" data-mce-style="background: #f5f5f5;"><div style="font-color: black" data-mce-style="font-color: black;"><b>From:</b> <a title="tacos@amrad.org" href="mailto:tacos@amrad.org" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:tacos@amrad.org">Phil via Tacos</a></div><div><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, March 17, 2016 1:54 PM</div><div><b>To:</b> <a title="tacos@amrad.org" href="mailto:tacos@amrad.org" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:tacos@amrad.org">Tacos AMRAD</a></div><div><b>Subject:</b> Re: Path Loss 101</div></div></div><div> </div></div><div style="FONT-SIZE: small; TEXT-DECORATION: none; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri"; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #000000; FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline" data-mce-style="font-size: small; text-decoration: none; font-family: 'Calibri'; font-weight: normal; color: #000000; font-style: normal; display: inline;">All the years I drummed into my students <i>ad nauseam</i>: "Units! <b>Units! UNITS!</b>"<div> </div><div>Phil M1GWZ (in old money)</div><div> </div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>Tacos mailing list<br>Tacos@amrad.org<br>https://lists.amrad.org/mailman/listinfo/tacos<br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>