Maybe them MFJ (Mighty Fine Junk) folks like to have a few beers once in
a while? After all,they are Mississippians and us Mississippians like to
do our thingys our way. www.thecarthaginian.com
cuhulin,Proud to be a natural born Mississippian

Radio Shack sells batteries and cell phones. www.bugsweeps.com
cuhulin

On Sat, 08 Apr 2006 15:39:54 GMT, David wrote:

On Sat, 08 Apr 2006 14:38:19 GMT, Johnny Borborigmi
wrote:

On 2006-04-07 22:23:08 -0400, Mark Shernan said:

wrote:
If you buy an MFJ,dont forget what they say,,,, Be sure to tighten up
the nuts and bolts and screws.
cuhulin

Huh??



MFJ are not well known for their quality control. They have good stuff
but their QC sucks out loud. It's a well know fact among hams
everywhere.


They are very nice on the phone. One good thing about them is they
encourage you to take their stuff apart. Hams are full of it.

MFJ products are hit and miss as far as quality and functionality.
Their tuners are the most functional of their products based on user
comments. As to their customer service - I'd prefer to speak to
somebody in India, my experiences with them have been very poor and I
was even a decent accomodating customer from the get-go. And yes,
many hams are full of it.........as are many SWL'ers and most folks in
general.

In article .com,
"RHF" wrote:

Snip

I wish you would stop posting with non-standard characters at the end of
your post. It's bad etiquette. It screws up the news reader display.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

Blitz,

AM/MW Antenna Tuner-Coupler for common AM/FM Radios
and AM/FM/Stereo Tuners

To 'couple' a simple LongWire Antenna to a so-called
HiFi Tuner {AM/FM Radio} :

* Use the simple {small} basic AM Loop Antenna that
comes with most modern AM/FM/Stereo/CD/Tape/Aux
Sound Systems and the many of AM/FM Radios.

* Then get a Select-A-Tenna Model 541-M and use
the 1/8" Mono-Jack on it as an Input for the LongWire
Antenna and Ground. The Select-A-Tenna becomes
the AM/MW Tuner-Coupler for the LongWire Antenna.

Place the Radio's basic AM Loop Antenna close to
the Select-A-Tenna and move it In-and-Out to vary
the Coupling between the two Loops.

TIP - The Select-A-Tenna can also be 'Positioned'
{Rotated} to : Peak a Weak Signal -or- Null-Out a
Strong {Interferring} Signal.

FWIW - The Terk AM Advantage 1000 Loop Antenna
and the RadioShack AM/MW Loop Antenna both have
1/8" Mono Input/Output Jacks and can do the same
basic job as a AM/MW Tuner-Coupler with most modern
AM/FM Radio's and AM/FM/Stereo Tuners.


hope this helps - iane ~ RHF

My DX-394 was getting killed on SW by WABC at 50,000 watts, and several
other local AM stations. I bought on ebay an I.C.E. Model 402 SWL -
receive only BCB Filter. Non-polarized, 50 ohm Highpass design, for use
from 1.8 MHz and up. It is wonderful for eliminating the AM overload.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=9703432607

HFguy wrote:
blitz wrote:

I've got two hi-fi tuners that overload on the outdoor long-wire (on
AM, of course). Is there a way to tune, preselect, detune, balun,
resist, or whatever the antenna so I can use it?

It depends on what's overloading the receiver. Are you located close to
a strong AM station? In general, a passive pre-selector should help but
you might need just a frequency 'trap' to reduce the strength of the
offending station. Are you using coax for the antenna lead-in or just a
single wire?

& on that note, anybody want to buy a relatively new, little used MFJ-956?

"Lisa Simpson" wrote in message
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Lisa Simpson wrote:
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On 7 Apr 2006 12:58:01 -0700, "coustanis"
wrote:

What antenna tuner (possibly with amp) for under...say a hundred
bucks
do you folks like.
This would be for general coverage and DXing.

Thanks.

If you're tuning an unbalanced, random-length wire, the MFJ 16010
L-circuit tuner is fine, and is only 49.95

For a balanced antenna, a dipole, say, the MFJ 901B Versa Tuner
would
work -- it's 79.99

The MFJ 956 preselector/tuner is another possibility

I have found the 956 to be useless on my DX394 w/Eavesdropper antenna,
does
absolutely nothing for or against reception/signal.

For the bored swl they offer an opportunity to twirl some knobs, but
that's about all they do.

Completely agree.

On Sun, 09 Apr 2006 15:41:56 GMT, "Lisa Simpson"
wrote:

& on that note, anybody want to buy a relatively new, little used MFJ-956?

It's handy for the Shorting Switch during thunderstorms, if nothing
else.

On Sun, 09 Apr 2006 15:57:47 -0400, blitz @. wrote:

David writes...

On Sat, 08 Apr 2006 10:37:21 -0400, blitz @. wrote:


HiFi AM tuners suck.

Compared to what?

Real radios.

Humor me.

They usually just throw in a single IC chip tuner that brick-walls the
high frequncies at around 4500 Hertz. If you try to use anything
other than the 6 feet of wire on a loop that comes with the receiver
the things will overload like crazy.

So I noticed, except for one old Yamaha that doesn't.

I have a Sangean ATS-606A that's well matched to its cabinet that I
use when travelling. It will occasionally whistle so I know that it's
got some bandwidth (has a ''fine tuner'' so I can tune away from the
adjacent.)

At home the cheapest thing I listen to MW on is a Drake SW2 (kitchen).
I also have an ICOM R75 in the bedroom and a Drake R8B in my office.

I can't stand inferior AM radios.

David wrote:
I can't stand inferior AM radios.

Whatever happened to Pete and his new design?

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