[TowerTalk] Fwd: MFJ QRT on May 17, 2024

[Bill Eisinger]

I could frankly care less about MFJ’s demise except for one thing….as by far the largest advertiser in QST, this will make an enormous hole in advertising revenues for the magazine…I’m sure there are plenty of folks who will say good riddance to them as well but I still enjoy receiving it every month…they have had budgetary issues as of late…this certainly won’t help.  

Bill, AA7X

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> On Apr 26, 2024, at 12:36 PM, David Gilbert <ab7echo at gmail.com> wrote:
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> LOL.  No way was any of MFJ's manufacturing J.I.T.   A few years back somebody did a video tour of MFJ's manufacturing line ... where they made actual MFJ gear ... and it was a horrible mess.  Almost no organization, parts everywhere, no linear product flow, most operations performed manually.  It was literally a classic garage shop, guaranteed to be inefficient and produce woeful quality.   I realized after I watched that video that I would never buy a piece of MFJ gear again.
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> There are actually a few such videos on YouTube ... this is the most recent from four years ago.  See for yourself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5IMnjqCiKU&ab_channel=w5kub
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> Anyone who has ever worked around modern manufacturing flows will know what I mean.
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> Dave   AB7E
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>> On 4/26/2024 6:25 AM, Steven Katz wrote:
>> "I found his comments about covid odd.  We sell on the internet and our sales were beyond amazing during covid.  Everyone was home getting free money (cough) and buying up everything!  It is too bad that they were not positions to take advantage of all the hams sitting at home."
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>> I think COVID was great for retail businesses or even manufacturers if they had inventory or at least all the components required to keep manufacturing lines running full-time during the pandemic.
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>> The issue, which I suspect was MFJ's issue, is if mfg relied on J.I.T. parts shipments and timely deliveries, including well organized kanban orders and shipments, they ran into snags with supply chain interruptions.   A lot of supply chain interruptions.
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>> Bummer when you have everything needed to build a $1000 automatic tuner but are missing one IC to complete the buiid, and nobody has any, nobody is shipping any and in some cases, nobody is even making any.
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