[Elecraft] MFJ's new Internal K3 Tuner, anyone tried one yet?

[Phil Wheeler]

It would be interesting to know: 1) How MFJ came 
up with such and idea, and decided to act on it; 
2) Who designed this product.

Phil W7OX

On 5/11/15 8:45 PM, Charlie T, K3ICH wrote:
> This strikes me as quite bizarre.  Do they 
> REALLY think we'd jeopardize our radios to save 
> a hundred bucks on duplicate option???
>
> I could "almost" understand it if it was 
> something that was not available from the OEM, 
> or, if it did something the OEM unit couldn't do.
>
> Personally, I think it was a very bad move on 
> MFJ's part to even consider it and I am 
> surprised they'd expend the effort to put it 
> into production..
>
> That said, I have lots of MFJ products and 
> although I've never had any major complaints,  I 
> do understand they have some QC problems.
>
> 73, Charlie k3ICH