Re: [IRCA] Quantum phaser vs MFJ 1026

["CHARLES HUTTON" <charlesh3@xxxxxxx>]

Patrick:

For phasing, you just leave the Quantum switch on "A+B". You don't need to 
fool with the switch any more, making its operation no more difficult than 
the MFJ-1026.

Yes, the MFJ is flawed but not in ways that you seem to have subjected it 
to, hence your positive report. It is known to overload and produce 
distortion products.


Chuck


>From: mwdxer@xxxxxxxxx (Patrick Martin)
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>Subject: Re: [IRCA] Quantum phaser vs MFJ 1026
>Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:42:29 -0800
>
>Craig,
>
>The MFJ 1026 some feel is flawed, but after I modified it by cutting out
>some resistors & coils, I find the unit works fine. The only reason I
>ordered the Quantum is that others said it was better than the MFJ unit.
>In my case, it is not. The MFJ unit does not load down the circuit. The
>Quantum does phase, but it doesn't leave much after I phase with it. An
>example is 690 here on the Northern Oregon Coast. With the MFJ unit, I
>phase out CBU Vancouver BC, leaving a weaker KRCO Primeville OR (1 KW),
>not too strong but listenable. I do the same thing with the Quantum, I
>can hardly hear anything on the channel. Plus the constant switching
>drives me nuts. The MFJ does not have the A/A&B/B switch. It just uses
>the controls. You turn the control down and the signal from that antenna
>goes away. There is no switches. But there seems to be something wrong
>to load the freq down that much.
>
>73,
>
>Patrick
>
>Patrick Martin
>Home of the 2006 IRCA Convention
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