[TowerTalk] Cushcraft Parts from MFJ

[Roger (sub1)]

On 11/21/2010 5:21 PM, W7RIS - ARRL wrote:
> It looks like the acquisition of Cruhcraft by MFJ Enterprises was a will
> balanced purchased of another moderately dysfunctional company. I can only
> hope as these companies become assimilated into MFJ, the good parts of these
> companies help to ultimately produce an improved enterprise.
I always rated Hy-gain well above MFJ.  They were helpful, easy to deal 
with and produced moderately priced antennas that worked well...at least 
the ones I tried did.  OTOH calling the hy-gain numbers in the manuals 
still gets me to hy-gain/mfj and good service.  My hopes have been that 
being acquired by MFJ would not downgrade Hy-gain.

73

Roger (K8RI)
> Mike - W7RIS
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> Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2010 8:24 AM
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> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Cushcraft Parts from MFJ
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> That video is the poster child for bad manufacturing practices, and it
> is no wonder they have the product quality problems they do.  It isn't a
> function of them being small, or being home grown ... it is purely a
> function of nobody there having the slightest clue regarding modern
> manufacturing principles, most of which would actually save them money.
> It would take a long time to document all the obvious things you can
> pick out of that video alone.
>
> They do indeed have some pretty good ideas, and there really isn't
> anyone who offers the range of products they do at reasonable prices,
> but there also isn't anyone else who consistently produces such horrible
> product quality.  I've bought several MFJ products over the years and
> fully half of them had significant quality problems.  I really wish they
> would get their act together, but until they do they've seen the last of
> my money.
>
> A couple of years ago I did a rather extensive survey of the product
> ratings on eHam comparing MFJ with the average of all other vendors for
> the products that MFJ made (I had the time then and I was curious).
> Even though the ratings on eHam are notoriously clustered toward the
> high end (mostly 4's and 5's, with a sprinkling of 0's and 1's for
> companies with bad service) MFJ was more than a full point below the
> average of everyone else for all products except clocks!
>
> 73,
> Dave   AB7E
>
>
>
> On 11/21/2010 8:18 AM, n4zkf wrote:
>> Has anyone seen the video on this place? They are actually proud of their
>> 2X4 built benches with carpet on them. (static?) They also show off a 35
>> year old dirty pool
>> wave solder machine. They have all the equipment they are building stacked
>> on top of each other. No wonder it's all scratched. It's a shame, they
> have
>> some great ideas. Just no QC.
>>
>> Dave n4zkf
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