----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Manthe" <n9aa@arrl.net>
To: <Amps@contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2007 8:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Amps] MFJ and Dahl
>I think pre-MFJ Ameritron amps were not as well built as post-MFJ
> Ameritron amps. The AL-84 is plastic and uses sweep tubes and the
> original AL-80 is junk compared to the "A" or "B" models.
The AL-84 was entry level at a time sweep tubes were cheap, import TX tubes
werent available yet and domestice were expensive. They were made to compete
with almost identical amps from Dentron and Amp Supply
There were only a very small # of the AL-80 released before the problems
were found and solved. The AL-80A was the result and had absolutely nothing
to do with MFJ.
However junk like the AL-811 and 811H are all on MFJ's watch.
> While it's very fashionable in some circles to bash MFJ at every
> possible opportunity, much of the equipment MFJ makes works OK and is of
> acceptable quality at the price point.
Acceptable to you maybe.
Rather than bash the company,
> amateurs ougth to pray that Mr. Jue survives to a ripe old age, because
> many of the products he produces, like the DC to daylight antenna
> analyzers, would not be available at anywhere the prices he's charging
> for them if he stops making them.
That thing has had so many revisions and fixes it should have been scrapped
early on.
And anybody can make a profit in the poorest state in the country when they
use college kids and poor locals part time, pay them slave wages and zero
benefits.
The end result is no competition from any other part of the country that has
a well educated and trained base of engineers and techs.
However, I do agree that there are
> often some quality control problems with MFJ products, but again, I
> don't expect Lexus quality at a Hyundai price.
Yugo comes to mind.
Carl
KM1H
>
> 73,
> Scott, N9AA
>
> Don Kessler wrote:
>> Thankfully Martin Jue was not running it. If he had, it would have
>> earned the
>> shame reputation that MFJ has for producing utter rubbish... MFJ has
>> managed
>> to suck the quality out of every company they bought.
>>
>> Don
>>
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