"Jim GM4DHJ ..." wrote in message
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"NY" wrote in message
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As a matter of interest, why do radio amateurs still refer to wavelength,
when broadcast radio changed to referring to frequency in the 1970s-80s?
I realise that c = f lambda, so one is related to the other by a factor
of c.

Do modern ham radios with synthesised tuning and digital displays
actually display it as a wavelength in metres/centimetres, or do they
display frequencies in kHz/MHz, but colloquially referred to as "in the
70 cm / 160 m band" as an approximation.

it's Mc/s actually ....

LOL. Of course. I'd completely forgotten about old radio stations using the
term "c/s" rather than "Hz".

"c/s" is somewhat reminiscent of old editions of Wireless World and other
similar magazines which had a strange house style of putting a full stop
after every single letter of an abbreviation or unit, and always using
lower-case letters (so "c./s." rather than "c/s", and e.p.r.o.m." rather
than "EPROM".