We're cranking out 10,000 milliwatts of power!!!

[John Francini]

Entertaining.  It's all a matter of the scale you're used to, I think...

I imagine that someone working on electric power generators or  
major-league particle accelerators, who are used to dealing with  
megawatts, gigawatts, or terawatts of power would look askance at a  
'mere' 50,000 Watts of Power (as WBZ Radio like to put it)...

john francini

On Oct 6, 2005, at 13:34, Rob wrote:

>
>> While at the website of my alma mater, I saw
>> something that almost made me fall out of my chair
>> laughing.  Read it for yourself, second sentence into
>> the first paragraph...
>>
>> http://web.plattsburgh.edu/about/tour/wqke.php
>>
>> Nothing like trying to make a less than flea power
>> operation look like something significant.  I wonder
>> how many people that read that don't realize that its
>> really saying 10 watts.
>
> Worse.  The radio-info.com site says that "The Quake" is operating  
> with NINE
> watts.  ;-)
>
> http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/finder? 
> call=wqke&x=0&y=0&is_unl=Y&is_lic=Y&is_cp=Y&sr=Y&s=C&sid=
>
> BTW....I thought 10 watters were required to jump to 100 watts years  
> ago.
>