yep, I watched the MFJ tour and Ameritron tour videos on youtube. Fascinating place, employs a lot of people doing interesting stuff in one giant very interesting workshop.
MFJ is one of the very, very few domestic manufacturers of consumer electronic equipment remaining, and seems to defy all the odds. Build their own board assemblies. They actually make a lot of their own components, especially for amplifiers and tuners!!! And use domestic manufacturers of things like transformers. Very ingenious company. And they employ a wide diversity of people in their company. Covid impacts have probably been making it quite difficult to deal with customer issues and supply chain delays over the past couple of years, more than usual.
I imagine that most hams have more MFJ equipment items in their shack than any other manufacturer, even if they don't want to admit it. Hams like to criticize MFJ quality sometimes, but I think it's a result of MFJ being a "big little company" that runs on a shoestring budget to give us interesting products at good prices. I doubt if Martin or any of his employees are rich, they're just making it work.
73, Ed