Steve,

Like you, I've never had any bad luck with MFJ, but I've heard horror 
stories from others who had.  I bought a mic controller, the 
MFJ-1263, which seems to have been pretty well designed.  Of course, 
there are no active components, and there's no high voltage involved, 
which is where MFJ seems to have some problems.  My one criticism of 
the product is that the connectors have a rather cheap feel to me.  I 
suppose they're trying to keep the costs down, but I expected a bit 
better quality parts for my $100.  In MFJ's defense, though, the box 
didn't introduce any hum into the system, and keeping out hum isn't 
easy with low-level inputs.  The bottom line is that you just have to 
pay close attention and pick your products carefully.  Kind of like 
Radio shack; some of their stuff is good, and some of it is just plain awful.

Steve

On Monday 2/6/06 13:40 Steve wrote:
>Hey Anthony,
>
>Sorry you haven't had good luck with MFJ.  But, you certainly paint with a
>broad brush.
>
>I've had an MFJ keyer for thirty years with no problems; and three different
>MFJ tuners, also with no problems.
>
>Admittedly, you get what you pay for sometimes.  But, since MFJ is buying up
>a lot of ham accessory and antenna manufacturers, I'm reminded of what my
>old boss from Kaiser Aluminum told me once:  "never is a long, long time."
>
>Steve
>K8SP
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Anthony Vece" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 1:11 PM
>Subject: Re: filter question
>
>
> >I wouldn't buy another MFJ product.
> >
> > I bought an auto tuner extender and it just kept shorting out.
> >
> > Every week a  friend of mine would come over an tighten up a nut that they
> > had in this unit.
> >
> > I just purchased a mixer that would let me mix two mics through two radios
> > and that thing just went bad.
> >