I recently ordered some replacement traps for my old A3S. One was
defective, so I took it apart. I was appalled at the poor quality. While
the original traps had several pop rivets, in addition to the coil
screws, connecting the tubing to the plastic insulator, the MFJ version
had only the two screws in the very end of the tubing. The coil wires
were sometimes wrapped the wrong way around the screws, and some of the
screws weren't even tight. Where the original coil was coated with some
kind of thick lacquer, the MFJ ones were bare.
The moral of the story is don't even think about going to the trouble of
putting up an MFJ/Cushcraft beam without taking apart all the traps and
fixing the above problems.
73,
Scott K9MA
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Scott K9MA
k9ma@sdellington.us
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