[Milsurplus] FLASH: McMaster-Carr Selling BC-610-F's

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

Mike,

Hee hee.  I hope most realized that the post was 2/3 TIC (tongue in cheek).

Incidentally, you left out TS 24 and a couple of other garbles I've seen.  
Unfortunately, since they "improved" the search engine on e--y, it ignores 
hyphens, etc.  I have a bunch of RC-292 antenna sets and was wanting to see whether 
any were being flogged there (at the time, there were).  But because the 
search engine now ignors the hyphen, I got all sorts of worthless hits like RC 
#292.  But most search engines are strictly literal.

I've seen somewhere in official documents SCR-274-N rendered as SCR-274N and 
the indication that N originally stood for "Navy", not the Nth model or 
revision or reorder.  But from what I turned up here this morning, it appears that 
by 1944 at least, the "error" had been corrected.  :-)

In a message dated 10/27/2004 10:32:18 AM Central Daylight Time, 
kk5f at earthlink.net writes: 
> Robert wrote:
> 
> >Then I got to the line where he said "After reassembly of my
> >BC-610E (sic) ...
> 
> Hi Robert,
> 
> Some may miss your point about  the "BC-610E (sic)" vs the BC-610-E.  As
> most of us know, the letter following the component number in the US Army's
> nomenclature system should have a dash in front of it.  Yet most folks write
> the nomenclatures in the form of FL-8A, BC-455B, SCR-274N, etc. rather than
> the correct FL-8-A, BC-455-B, SCR-274-N, etc.  The same practice occurs with
> the JAN system.
> 
> It makes a **big** difference when searching, say, ebay or the web for a
> particular component.  Let's say I'm searching the web for the TS-24A/ARR-2.
> To cover most of the possibilities, I have to search for:
> 
> 

Robert Downs - Houston
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