When I was in the Navy in the mid-1970's, we would order the 011-0049-
00 using the FSN. Amazing what the military can do to you when they
decide to get something cheaper. We didn't get Tek terminations.
Instead, we got these low-bidder things that were all chromed (or
nickel, or whatever), few of them measured exactly 50 ohms and most
of them fell apart in our hands with the first use! I think we'd
rather have had a $500 hammer! And if you wanted the REAL thing from
Tek, you had to order them "open purchase" (or direct from a
commercial vendor vs. throught the normal military supply system)
which was always a real hassle in justification, etc. And even then,
if your ordered something like that "open purchase", often our own
supply folks would do us the "favor" of discovering that the part we
wanted had an FSN and we'd end up with the inferior parts anyway!
Dean
