HG>DS>   It's funny that while there is metrics with the ham radio license
HG>DS> exams, and most of the rest of the world uses metrics (including in
HG>DS> meteorology, with things like millibars and degrees celsius), the
HG>DS> U.S. refuses to give up using imperial measurements.

HG>The move towards the metric system in USA has already began, with the
HG>children at school learning it, and young people having recently left
HG>school, or are studying at universitys and high schools, are using it
HG>in their daily life.

HG>It's the older generation that refuse to learn and use it, that are the
HG>block on the road.

Actually there is a great deal of oposition from small manfacturing
facilities becasue of the Cost of Conversion of theri equipment
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