Most on this list may remember my post about the factory 
tours during the 40th anniversary. For those who have come 
along since then, there are basically 3 buildings: MFJ, 
Hy-Gain/CushCraft, and Ameritron, plus a metal shop which 
most of us did not visit.

(That metal shop was a skating rink when I was a student at 
MSU, so I have seen the building several times anyway.)

One of my favorite parts of the tour was talking to the guy 
at
Hy-Gain/Cushcraft whose jop
it was to "see if I can set these antennas on fire."

I asked him what he did when one did in fact catch fire, and 
he said: "I grab it up with a pot holder, and bolt out the 
back door with it."

Of course, I then tried to get him to melt one down for us, 
which he naturally declined to do.

But, it was fun trying, anyway.

His "RF tester" was a nearly 30 year old Dentron MLA2500 amp 
running at full tilt.

Let's just say that the 2500 in the model number of that amp 
meant exactly that.






Mike Duke, K5XU
American Council of Blind Radio Amateurs