{"id":21923,"date":"2016-10-26T07:52:54","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T11:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=21923"},"modified":"2016-10-26T07:52:54","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T11:52:54","slug":"daves-review-of-the-mfj-10261025-and-regulated-ac-adapter-recommendations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/daves-review-of-the-mfj-10261025-and-regulated-ac-adapter-recommendations\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave’s review of the MFJ-1026\/1025 and regulated AC adapter recommendations"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"mfj-1026\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Dave Zantow (N9EWO)<\/a>, who shares the following reply to TomL’s post More Anti-Noise Ideas<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n

My VERY NOISY Sony CRT TV has gone to the great electronics recycling bin in the sky thank goodness. But I still have a MFJ-1026 here and need to use it when the neighborhood gets noisy. Intermittent power line noise is the main issue these days for me.<\/p>\n

[Note that] my Monitoring Times review from April 2007 on the MFJ-1026 (and 1025 model without the preamp, but is best to have it) is still available here :<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.monitoringtimes.com\/mtrevu0407.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

(is also linked on my web page, with many other of our other favorite ones : http:\/\/webpages.charter.net\/n9ewo2\/links.html <\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"jameco-ac-adapter\"<\/a>I still power it with a analog REGULATED Jameco 170245 12 volt (1 amp) ac adapter.<\/p>\n

Last batch I purchased a few years ago were still 100% clean and analog regulation. As I have covered in the past, SOME of Jameco excellent REGULATED AC adapters have gone to using switching regulator devices inside (and these no longer clean for any radio use).<\/p>\n

Click here to view the170245 12 volt AC adapter on Jameco.<\/a><\/p>\n

DX Engineering is about to come out with a improved version of the premium priced NCC-1, called the NCC-2. Mid late November Delivery ?? Never had our hands on one the pricey NCC-1 critters as the MFJ gets the job done for us (let alone affording it).<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.dxengineering.com\/parts\/dxe-ncc-1<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.dxengineering.com\/parts\/dxe-ncc-2<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You make an excellent point: it’s important to power your noise-canceling device with\u00a0a quality, clean, regulated AC adapter.<\/p>\n

Thank you for sharing the links to your review and the AC adapter recommendations, Dave!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dave Zantow (N9EWO), who shares the following reply to TomL’s post More Anti-Noise Ideas: My VERY NOISY Sony CRT TV has gone to the great electronics recycling bin in the sky thank goodness. But I still have a MFJ-1026 here and need to use it when the neighborhood gets […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4199,3,196,43],"tags":[3845,2584,5557,4303,3846],"class_list":["post-21923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessories","category-news","category-qrm","category-shortwave-radio","tag-ac-adapters","tag-dave-zantow-n9ewo","tag-jameco-170245","tag-mfj-1026","tag-regulated-power-supply"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-5HB","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":52420,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/frans-experiments-with-the-mfj-1026-noise-canceler\/","url_meta":{"origin":21923,"position":0},"title":"Frans experiments with the MFJ-1026 Noise Canceling Signal Enhancer","author":"Thomas","date":"April 12, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Frans Goddijn, who writes: \"Last week I purchased the MFJ-1026 \u2018noise canceling signal enhancer\u2019 and I posted two blogs with video about it. 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