Hi;
Very Interesting.  When I called m f j the other day a woman said 
I'd reached the wrong building.  Now that makes much more sense.
richard
sent from my braille note

 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Duke, K5XU" <[log in to unmask]
To: [log in to unmask]
Date sent: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 21:30:33 -0500
Subject: The MFJ Tour

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