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I was just reading the Wal-Mart add and came across the following: Special Buy, 29.95 each, 14-channel Family Radio, >>500 watts of power<< with up to 2 mile talk range. Large backlit LCD. Ideal for camping and skiing. One Time Offer. The emphasis is mine. Now I know what FRS stands for - Family Radio Station! As a bonus, I bet that 500 watts of RF will keep your hands and ears warm too ;^) Mike. ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: dl.http://www.juno.com/get/tagj.

It's a national misprint, I saw the same thing in my insert. It says "Great for camping or skiing." So I'm thinkin..you could start a fire with it or get kicked off the slopes cause you melted all the snow =) Tim Hamel In a message dated 1/30/00 6:59:53 AM Pacific Standard Time, spam_OUTbike_kulTakeThisOuTJUNO.COM writes: {Quote hidden}> I was just reading the Wal-Mart add and came across the following: > > Special Buy, 29.95 each, 14-channel Family Radio, >>500 > watts of > power<< > with up to 2 mile talk range. Large backlit LCD. Ideal for > camping and > skiing. > One Time Offer. > > The emphasis is mine. > > Now I know what FRS stands for - Family Radio Station! > > As a bonus, I bet that 500 watts of RF will keep your hands and ears > warm too ;^) > > Mike.

I guess the real question is, what did they MEAN to say?! I guess 500 milliWatts! Sean At 08:56 AM 1/30/00 -0600, you wrote: > I was just reading the Wal-Mart add and came across the following: > > Special Buy, 29.95 each, 14-channel Family Radio, >>500 watts of >power<< > with up to 2 mile talk range. Large backlit LCD. Ideal for camping and {Quote hidden}>skiing. > One Time Offer. > > The emphasis is mine. > > Now I know what FRS stands for - Family Radio Station! > > As a bonus, I bet that 500 watts of RF will keep your hands and ears >warm too ;^) > > Mike. | | Sean Breheny | Amateur Radio Callsign: KA3YXM | Electrical Engineering Student \--------------=---------------- Save lives, please look at http://www.all.org Personal page: http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/shb7 .....shb7KILLspam@spam@cornell.edu ICQ #: 3329174

Here comes again the SI issue. I pretty guess the publisher people doesn't have a minimum clue what means that little "m" in front of the "W" what they "guess" to means "Watts".... now, it could be worse, because one of them, entitled to be the "smarter" of the group could come up with the idea that "m" means "Mega", can you believe what could be the ad? Wagner. Sean Breheny wrote: {Quote hidden}> > I guess the real question is, what did they MEAN to say?! I guess 500 > milliWatts! > > Sean > > At 08:56 AM 1/30/00 -0600, you wrote: > > I was just reading the Wal-Mart add and came across the following: > > > > Special Buy, 29.95 each, 14-channel Family Radio, >>500 > watts of > >power<< > > with up to 2 mile talk range. Large backlit LCD. Ideal for > camping and > >skiing. > > One Time Offer. > > > > The emphasis is mine. > > > > Now I know what FRS stands for - Family Radio Station! > > > > As a bonus, I bet that 500 watts of RF will keep your hands and ears > >warm too ;^) > > > > Mike. > > | > | Sean Breheny > | Amateur Radio Callsign: KA3YXM > | Electrical Engineering Student > \--------------=---------------- > Save lives, please look at http://www.all.org > Personal page: http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/shb7 > shb7KILLspamcornell.edu ICQ #: 3329174

>> Special Buy, 29.95 each, 14-channel Family Radio, >>500 >> watts of >> power<< >> with up to 2 mile talk range. Large backlit LCD. Ideal for They mean with 500 watts audio output you'll be able to hear it from 2 miles away. If you can get speakers, that is. Andy ================================================================== New Microprocessor support forum mail list - details on our site ------------------------------------------------------------------ .....andyKILLspam.....rc-hydros.com http://www.rc-hydros.com - Race Boats EraseMEandyspam_OUTTakeThisOuTmontanadesign.com http://www.montanadesign.com - Electronics ==================================================================

Andy Kunz wrote: > They mean with 500 watts audio output you'll be able to hear it from 2 > miles away. I think they may mean 500 W PMPO, which is a fancy way of saying 10 W RMS. Of course, RMS watts are not meaningful either (FAQ), just a way of saying "10 watts actual". An alternate, but very improbable for the price, interpretation would be that it comes with, or is accessorised by, a petrol generator set. -- Cheers, Paul B.

>>> I was just reading the Wal-Mart add and came across the following: >>> >>> Special Buy, 29.95 each, 14-channel Family Radio, >>500 watts >>> of power<< with up to 2 mile talk range. Large backlit LCD. >> I guess the real question is, what did they MEAN to say?! >> I guess 500 milliWatts! > Here comes again the SI issue. I pretty guess the publisher > people doesn't have a minimum clue what means that little "m" > in front of the "W" what they "guess" to means "Watts".... Simpler explanation has _nothing_ to do with SI units. Original ad copy probably said ".500 watts" -- and the printer simply missed the decimal point during typesetting. Printers would not have taken the liberty to change or expand "mW" in an advertisement. And Wal-Mart's marketing department would laugh at you if you suggested that a significant fraction of their target market knew what mW meant (so they would not use SI units in an ad). Now I could believe that a marketing droid read 500 mW and ignored the little m when transcribing. As I recall, Family Radio Service is limited to 500 milliwatts, fixed (non-removable) antenna, and non-rechargable batteries. It shares frequencies with GMRS (General Mobile Radio Service, aka business users with higher power radios and repeaters). Lee Jones

Seeing as it's going to be one of "those" days - 1 million microphones = 1 megaphone 2000 mockingbirds = two kilomockingbirds 10 cards = 1 decacards 1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche 453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake 1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin 10 rations = 1 decoration 100 rations = 1 C-ration 10 millipedes = 1 centipede 3 1/3 tridents = 1 decadent 2 monograms = 1 diagram 8 nickels = 2 paradigms 2 wharves = 1 paradox

> I was just reading the Wal-Mart add and came across the following: > >Special Buy, 29.95 each, 14-channel Family Radio, >>500 watts of power<< >with up to 2 mile talk range. Large backlit LCD. Ideal for camping and skiing. > One Time Offer. That's why they are on sale, the battery life was unreasonably short. :) The antennas must really suck though, as I can get 2-3 miles on only half a watt on UHF. (450-ish)

> An alternate, but very improbable for the price, interpretation would >be that it comes with, or is accessorised by, a petrol generator set. Is a petrol generator something that generates petrol? Would that mean, then, a cataclysm? Or an oil derrick? Or perhaps a refinery? Just being silly - I know what it really is. A dinosaur <G> Andy ================================================================== New Microprocessor support forum mail list - details on our site ------------------------------------------------------------------ andyspam_OUTrc-hydros.com http://www.rc-hydros.com - Race Boats @spam@andyKILLspammontanadesign.com http://www.montanadesign.com - Electronics ==================================================================

>2 monograms = 1 diagram Guess that blows away "A picture is worth a thousand words" eh? Andy ================================================================== New Microprocessor support forum mail list - details on our site ------------------------------------------------------------------ KILLspamandyKILLspamrc-hydros.com http://www.rc-hydros.com - Race Boats RemoveMEandyTakeThisOuTmontanadesign.com http://www.montanadesign.com - Electronics ==================================================================

Andy Kunz wrote: > > >2 monograms = 1 diagram > > Guess that blows away "A picture is worth a thousand words" eh? > > Andy And, the old "A word is only worth a micro-picture" (Milli-Picture?) Or "A Word is only worth a Pixel". :-) Don McKenzie TakeThisOuTdonEraseMEspam_OUTdontronics.com http://www.dontronics.com World's Largest Range of Atmel/AVR and PICmicro Hardware and Software. Free Basic Compiler and Programmer http://www.dontronics.com/runavr.html

Jinx <RemoveMEjoecolquittTakeThisOuTCLEAR.NET.NZ> wrote: >Seeing as it's going to be one of "those" days - >1 million microphones = 1 megaphone etc. I keep seeing this list, more or less expanded, but with that first entry copied verbatim. Folks, it's WRONG! Try: 1 million microphones = 1 phone 1 million phones = 1 megaphone Dave

> > Guess that blows away "A picture is worth a thousand words" eh? > > > > Andy > > And, the old "A word is only worth a micro-picture" (Milli-Picture?) > > Or "A Word is only worth a Pixel". :-) > > Don McKenzie donEraseME.....dontronics.com http://www.dontronics.com > > World's Largest Range of Atmel/AVR and PICmicro Hardware and Software. > Free Basic Compiler and Programmer http://www.dontronics.com/runavr.html My favorite counter to "A picture is worth a thousand words." is "Try saying that with a picture.". -- Peace, William Kitchen The future is ours to create.

> > >2 monograms = 1 diagram > > > > Guess that blows away "A picture is worth a thousand words" eh? > > > > Andy > > And, the old "A word is only worth a micro-picture" (Milli-Picture?) > > Or "A Word is only worth a Pixel". :-) Well, still valid in 256 colors video card settings... :)

At 09:19 AM 1/31/00 -0500, you wrote: >Actually, on a PC, wouldn't a "Word" represent either 2 8-bit pixels or 1 >16-bit pixel? But what about the 24-bit video on my machine? Andy ================================================================== New Microprocessor support forum mail list - details on our site ------------------------------------------------------------------ RemoveMEandyEraseMEEraseMErc-hydros.com http://www.rc-hydros.com - Race Boats RemoveMEandyspam_OUTKILLspammontanadesign.com http://www.montanadesign.com - Electronics ==================================================================

That's 3 bytes - isn't a "word" usually 2 bytes? Or is it processor-dependent? -Randy Glenn E-Mail: RemoveMEPICxpertTakeThisOuTspamyahoo.com Web: http://i.am/PICxpert Currently wondering why I can't get in to Safe Mode - where's a Mac when you need it? {Original Message removed}

A "word" in data processing is related to the processor itself. For some computers it is 8 bits, for other 16, 24, 32 ... 64 bits or more. Basically it was an attempt to also represent that particular computer data bus width. The definition of n-bits for video and other cards it is merely how the hardware use it for its purpose, not necessarily how the processor load that memory via the data bus. ... in a representation, one can say that doesn't matter how big if your beef, you eat it in small pieces, and that is the real size of your "food word". :) Wagner. Andy Kunz wrote: {Quote hidden}> > At 09:19 AM 1/31/00 -0500, you wrote: > >Actually, on a PC, wouldn't a "Word" represent either 2 8-bit pixels or 1 > >16-bit pixel? > > But what about the 24-bit video on my machine? > > Andy > > ================================================================== > New Microprocessor support forum mail list - details on our site > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > EraseMEandyspamspamBeGonerc-hydros.com http://www.rc-hydros.com - Race Boats > RemoveMEandyKILLspammontanadesign.com http://www.montanadesign.com - Electronics > ==================================================================