Re: Design of 900MHz antenna's

From: Clarence_A (no_at_No.com)
Date: 01/31/05 

Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 03:40:24 GMT

"Rich Grise" <richgrise@example.net> wrote in message
news:pan.2005.01.31.02.50.33.509289@example.net...
> On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 19:57:41 +0000, Mac wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 18:54:16 +0000, Rich Grise wrote:
>
> >> lessee.. 300,000,000 m/s / 915,000,000 c/s = 33 cm. Half of
that, 16.5
> >> cm. That's less than an inch long.
> >
> > We may as well use accurate numbers. 299 / 915 = 0.3268 m =
32.68 cm.
> > Half of that is 16.34 cm. There are exactly 2.54 cm per inch,
so that is
> > 6.43"
> >
>
> D'oh!!!
>
> Somehow I translated cm to mm in my headbone. ?:-|

That's because the damn things are in French!