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by mc32 1375 days ago
There is a lot in there, but the one piece of trivia is they use the term Megacycles instead of Megahertz...
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My grandfather was an early HAM radio operator and TV engineer, my dad still has some of his old equipment and the tuning dials are in cycles rather hertz, I grew up hearing him say kilocycle and megacycle.
I still use megacycles in some contexts, mostly because of using my dad's old 1940s-era radio equipment when I was a teenager.

It's crazy to think that his Panda PR-120V was about the same age then as my early-80s Trio TS520 is now.

Hertz became an SI unit in 1960. It's odd to think it only gathered heavy adoption in the last 50 years.