[Texas Fossil]

Even on the techno side, the English are different in how they describe things.

USA = 1.8 K ohm resistor

English = 1K8 ohm resistor

And they use some archaic terms for electronics.

Back in the “vacuum tube” days the English referred to them as “valves”

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Back in the 1980’s I built a UHF satellite converter kit for Lew McCoy (technical editor for QST magazine). That was where I first noticed the odd component descriptions and symbols they used in England.

He was a much better technician than I was, but he only had one eye. He lost the other in an accident with reloads in a hand gun. He liked the assembly job I did on it, I had a friend of mine test it (sensitivity and selectivity) at work. He worked at White Sands, they had a good lab there.

[GOPJ]

Interesting Tex... some cool stuff in your life. Thanks for sharing.