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I'm sure everyone knows by now but HRO is selling them. I did notice a pair, the G90 and the X6100 or X5100 last time I was there.

↑↑↑ ↑↑↑ Why do I feel like that is analogous to erecting antennas?

I've been reading up on those, Cor. Apparently they are legendary and hold up for many many years, scores of years or until a very bad storm comes...

the story I'm hearing is that it had been difficult to find solid workers with the right skills. they'll still be able to sell the stuff manufactured...

Using the original Fritzel OCF here, with 1:6.7 balun and incorporated 1:1 choke and 1500 watt version,worst swr 1; 1.4 80/40/20 17, 12 10 and 6...

Well I was right to suspect the balun! I dropped the OCFD today and inspected solder joints in the wire where I made previous adjustments. I...

Here ya go, perfect addition to the collection.

Add things to it.

Last week I rebuilt the OCFD. My old 100 watt balun was not in the greatest shape. I did my best to tighten everything down inside the balun but it...

Tradition!

If it's good china, why break it?

Remember when Cushcraft Corp was acquired by, I believe it was Laird, around 2007? It wasn’t too long after that they dumped the Amateur product...

True Cor. I keep forgetting things like that are in my wheel house and I am lucky to be tooled up for such foolery. Even so, I haven't built a tubing...

Are we breaking out the good china?

Or the tools to do that. Here we have some ready antenna makers in the EU, still i see it as a loss. Mfj 993B, Mfj 998 legal limit tuner, MFj 269...

The ready made antenna market is the one I think that will suffer highly, because it seems not many hams have any metal fab skills to speak of.

My nephew and his wife may be joining Sam. He's also in that particular field (Seems Uncle Fred was a bad influence...:mrgreen: ).

New ones, possibly. It remains to be seen what the contemporary domestic equipment gear makers (Elecraft, DZKit, Flex et al) will do to fill the gaps...

Just saw something interesting on eBay, Giga parts is selling the MFJ stuff for $20 to $30 over MFJ's list.

I just noticed a lack of big regulated power supplies by MFJ after scrolling through pages of stuff. If you've been to an HRO lately, and I have,...

The prices will go up and all MFJ items will be listed as extra rare and collectors item..... I dont expect a price jump until after everything...

That's really a shame. They made stuff that was easy to work on. I know a lot of people complained about the quality but, you could usually find the...

I would guess that turf is well fertilized.

Yup, a sad day for hams in general. I have to wonder if anyone will pick up the pieces to the point Martin had it at.

...it looks like that letter is also posted on the MFJ Facebook page...

With all due respect, has anyone, anywhere, confirmed the authenticity of this letter? If it is (and I suspect it is, sad to say)... there have...

Interesting. Was there no value in some of the pieces (Ameritron, Hygain, Cushcraft, etc.) that Jue couldn't find a buyer for some of them?

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