[TowerTalk] antenna choices

[Jim Brown]

On Fri,4/10/2015 9:56 AM, Bry Carling wrote:
> Mass production always lowers the price. That is not a fair comparison. Somebody somewhere is quite happily making Cushcraft antennas for a much lower price than these multi thousand dollar antennas.

MFJ owns all those companies now, they are in a low wage area with no 
unions to protect workers, their products are widely seen as low 
quality. I don't know how they are for support. I keep hearing stories 
of cold solder joints in their electronic products.  Their power amps 
are cheaply made, that's why they're sold cheap. Many use the acronym, 
Mighty Fine Junk. If you don't care about what you're buying, go ahead 
and play cheap. But don't be surprised when the mechanical parts aren't 
wonderful, when some are missing, when they don't fit together quite 
right, and when they don't hold up in the weather.

73, Jim K9YC