Hi Matt, I've had and used a couple of the 9406 radios, as well as a 9420, 
the twenty meter version.  They make a 9475, 9440, 9420, 9406 and 9402, for 
single band operation on those bands, I don't think there's one for 17, 15, 
12, or 10, although I may be wrong.  If you go to the mfj enterprises site, 
you can find out.  At any rate, the radios are very simple, very efficient 
and in my experience, very good.  they have no speech or cw accessibility 
built in, but they do have a one knob frequency tuning control, with an 
atatched pointer behind the knob, a volume control, and a RIT/receiver 
incramental tuning control, as well as a power on-off button, all those 
controls on the front.  there's a mic gain/power output or ALC control 
screw adjustment in the back, the radio puts out about 12watts, ssb, they 
have very good speech compression and punch, they sound much bigger than 
they are in terms of their on air signal.  There's a cw module which can be 
added to any of them, which will make them operate on both ssb and cw modes. 
they use a mic resembling one of the Radioshack handmics, have a top of the 
cabinet speaker, a coax antenna plug, barel type/like on the htx202 power 
connecter, They're not for everybody, but for a very simple, very portable, 
very low power usage radio, they're hard to beat.  I've seen examples sell 
for anywhere from $75 to more than two hundred on the used market, depending 
on condition and options.  The new ones with no cw module sell for between 
270&300$S.  For a monoband QRP type rig, they're hard to beat, and most of 
the folks who have them with their expectations geared to what the radios 
really are, swear by, rather than at the little things, and most are pretty 
lothe to selling them.  Hope This Helps, Danny.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "matt v" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 7:25 PM
Subject: 6m radio i found: is this any good


> hi all
> I was on the aesham.com site looking for toys (like i have money to =
> blow) anyway i found the only 6 meter ssb xcvr is an mfj but unlike the =
> other radios, it doesn't have the "more details" lin k.  does anyone =
> have this radio, know much about it, etc?
> the model number is
> 9406X
> MFJ 10W PEP 6M SSB XCVR W/MIC
>
> thanks for any info
>