Hey All,
MFJ offered a lot of cool toys at good prices, but hit and miss re QC. If you didn't mind the hassle of a a reship sometimes , eventually you would wind up with a working product at a decent price. My ant tuner had a bad solder joint I simply touched it up. It shouldn't have happened but I knew it was "buyer beware" before I went in.
I just have to laugh every time I hear this code "argument".
I used to copy some of the most FOUL mouthed operators and drunk jammers WAY back in the 60's, when there was a CODE requirement
. There was a BIG clique of these attention hungry clowns on 3885 AM.
I have PERSONALLY heard it from 2 all the way down to 160.
There are ALWAYS going to be bad apples no matter where you go. A code requirement never was and never will be a "screening mechanism " to keep the idiots out !
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FWIW, The best and most EXTREMELY knowledgeable hams (inc. Extras, ie folks employed in cutting edge /classified electronics ) I knew all started out on CB and then "graduated" up to amateur radio.
And yes, CB, for the most part, is a playground for RF simpletons. But like it or not , most hams started out there.So we have to (grudgingly) "give" CB at least that - it was an easy venue for the "first step".
Whatever.
NQC