This weekend, a good chap made mention that his beverage antennas were not
working as they had been at another QTH, and that his MFJ-1026 didnt seem to
help much-
I suggested ICE devices to help him with the beverages and also mentioned a
personal note on MFJ- based upon my past luck with them-
If you read the ad for this unit, the MFJ1026, in their 1999 catalog on page
14, it states:
"Wipe Out All Types Of Noise"
Wipe Out Lightning Crashes
Better Than Phased Antennas
Eliminate Unwanted Signals
Is it no wonder this person may have been dissapointed his unit didn't work
as advertised? After all, they claim it is better than phased arrays- wow!!
But short of turning your rig off- I don't know what will "wipe out"
lightning crashes-
It reads on to state:
"Strong local ham overloading your sensitive receiver? Cant copy your QSO?
Cast a deep null on him and literally take him out- you wont even know he is
there"
Please...........if you null him out, do you really think you will hear your
QSO too? If his harmonic is on on top of you, and he is running full legal,
and he is down the block- is this thing going to wipe him out? what page is
MFJ selling bridges on anyway?
Does the unit enhance reception? According to many low banders, it does- and
how nice it would be if it were advertised like this- but does "MFJ Wipe Out
Interference"??????? If anyone can attest to this unit, doing things in
absolutes, as the ad reads- I'll state again what I stated earlier- your
lucky-
73 Paul N0AH
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