[Elecraft] OT: MFJ Quality Issues

[Don Rasmussen]

MFJ builds to the lowest common denominator, which is inverse to Elecraft. Each Elecraft is custom crafted, and as of yesterday, If there is a good concern, you can get the actual engineer on the horn - whatever it takes to make it right. 

I also purchased the 1026 Noise Canceller most recently, but they bend the cabinet sheet metal AFTER it's painted, then (MFJ's term) "adjust" the product with a green magic marker pen. Looks like crap, new out of the box. The same cost savings are applied elsewhere, I installed a small relay in the place of this little light bulb they have for RF circuit protection, and removed many decibels of attenuation. 

Where do all these cost savings go? Into QST, AES, etc magazine advertising, they have all the money in the world for that!!!! ;-)


[Elecraft] OT: MFJ Quality Issues
Erik N Basilier ebasilier at cox.net 
Fri Apr 3 14:04:03 EDT 2009 

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Here is my MFJ score:
Over the years I have bought only 4 MFJ products brand new and fully 
assembled. Of those, only the first one had a problem. That was a tuner 
purchased over 20 years ago. It had a missing solder joint. My later 
purchases (noise bridge, RF current sniffer, noise canceler) have been fine.
73,
Erik K7TV