MFJ-259B

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MFJ-259B

Jeremiah McCarthy
I have an MFJ-259B...I have mixed feelings about it...I can not complain about it's function, but I have had problems with the quality of the battery box and with customer support...The battery box is an inexpensive black plastic affair that holds ten "AA" cells...The combined tension of ten springs on the negative side of the cells is enough to distort the box causing intermittent operation and eventual failure of the battery box...The instrument has a built-in charger, but I now take the cells out of the instrument when it is not in use, and that is a pain...

When my 259 was assembled at the factory, the screws holding the battery box in place were over-torqued creating hairline cracks radiating out like a spider web from the screws, resulting in eventual failure...It took several e-mails and snail-mails to MFJ to get them to even acknowledge me and send me a new battery box, which I had to pay for...

Jerry, wa2dkg
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