[TowerTalk] Cushcraft/MFJ Traps

[K9MA]

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 at sdellington.us