"Tom" wrote in message
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Most of us hams do not have the money to go out and buy an Alpha amp. From
my own experience, I can tell not difference in the signal from an Alpha
or Tokyo from an Ameritron.

I am guessing that Martin is pushing those products through QC very
quickly to keep margins up. It is a balance between QC and profit margin
that is probably hard to find. My own guess is that if he put more
emphasis on QC and charged a bit more for each product, that his business
would do better just from the reputation he would gain.


I think Ameritron was bought by MFJ as they have bought a few other
companies.
I have only bought 2 items made by MFJ. One was a packet tnc years ago. It
was defective and I sent it back. They sent me a new one and I had it in
about 3 days. No problem on that as I know it is easy for a new item to be
defective out of the box and they did ship a new one just as fast as
possiable. About 5 years later I bought a new antenna tuner from a dealer at
a hamfest. It had loose screws and after I tightened them and recalibrated
the wattmeter that was way off with a Bird meter, it seemed to work fine.
The schematic in the manual did not match the tuner either. I try not to
even look at the MFJ items due to the poor reputation of the quality
control.

From what I am hearing, when MFJ buys a company, the quality goes down hill.