[TowerTalk] Ferrites 31 vs. 77 material

[David Gilbert]

You could make the same generalizations about U.S. quality if you didn't 
ignore companies like MFJ or some of the antenna manufacturers that 
can't seem to put all the required parts in the box.

Certainly there are Chinese companies cut every corner possible and put 
out trash to achieve lowest possible cost, but I still say that's a poor 
generalization that is rapidly changing and becomes less and less valid 
every year.  The ones who are trying to compete globally do a much 
better job of it ... better in many cases than their American 
counterparts.  What do you think the K4 would look like if Elecraft 
outsourced the manufacturing to MFJ (a company that like many Chinese 
companies designs and manufactures to hit a price point imposed by the 
market)?  I doubt you would even be willing to buy one.

Here is a more objective look at reality:

https://www.intouch-quality.com/blog/youre-wrong-chinese-factories-dont-only-make-poor-quality-products

Dave   AB7E


On 11/5/2019 5:21 AM, Rob Atkinson wrote:
>> My gripe is that simply bashing anything made in China is decades out of date and a bad generalization.
> Gripe all you want but you've used a few examples to try to refute a
> generalization that has basis in fact.   There are far too many cases
> of poor products from outside US and Europe, not just China, that
> disagree with your belief.
>
> Chinese vacuum tube production is all over the place--some are great;
> others flash over.  Consumer products missing RFI suppression
> components, and then there's steel quality which has been known to be
> life threatening when used in critical structural applications.  US
> Gov't procurement has a whole course on how to spot knockoff hardware.
> Would you go up a tower made in China with Chinese ceramic insulators?
>   (This is Towertalk after all.)  On the other hand, smartphones from
> off shore seem to have no issues.    Obviously, when manufacturers
> enforce QC and micromanage the process, things go well.
> Otherwise.....cheap ham handy talkies for $20 are the result.
>
> I never knew anything about the QC variations in ferrite until K9YC
> mentioned it.
>
> 73
> Rob
> K5UJ
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