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Review Summary For : MFJ-2389
Reviews: 5MSRP: $339.95
Description:
8-Band Stealth Antennas MFJ-2389 Antenna, Vertical, Compact, 8-Band, 200 W PEP 80-10m, 150 W FM 6m / 2m / 70cm, 8.5 ft. Height,
Product is in production
More Info: https://mfjenterprises.com/products/mfj-2389?_pos=1&_sid=eeae43982&_ss=r
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K6WOK Rating: 2024-05-20
Doesn't work well as is Time Owned: 6 to 12 months.
Been trying to get this to work for some time and was unable to. Started off with element length from the manual. Start tuning at 50mhz to found it resonance at much lower freq. The supplied element was way too long and need to be cut. After that, the rest of the band kind of fall in but unable to center the SWR curve into the middle of the band. Even if I can, the curve shows bandwidths is too narrow. To get this to work, an antenna tuner is needed.
KJ7UIZ Rating: 2021-09-30
Small antenna for restricted space situations Time Owned: 6 to 12 months.
I mounted this antenna 30' up and have been able to work most of the continental USA on 20m SSB @ 100W. I use a diplexer to also connect my 2m rig to the same antenna and it works very well for local area repeater and SOTA simplex transmissions. I haven't been able to work anyone in Europe or Africa yet.
W3TNU Rating: 2020-10-19
Stealth for small venues Time Owned: more than 12 months.
When I moved from my house to a retirement community, I left behind my 284 ft horizontal loop up 30 feet. What a great DX and NVIS aerial. Now I live in a patio apartment with a 20 x 20 ft side porch as the only venue for a ham antenna. What a let down. I bought this stealth antenna so that I could at least get back on the air. Of course, it’s performance is limited. Only certain portions of 80 meters will load and the signal is weak. 40 meters is better, and I have done well on certain QSO Parties. 20 meters is much better, letting me participate in European and California contests, with contacts in Hawaii. I didn’t expect much more, and I’m grateful to MFJ for providing me with a ham experience again.
VA2DV Rating: 2020-05-07
Very expensive for what it is Time Owned: 0 to 3 months.
I wanted to try this model for a long time just to see if it could work as a cottage antenna in the summer.
First, you must ask your boss a week of vacation for tuning this critter. All bands interacts with each others and you end up with microscopic bandwidths on most the bands.
If it’s raining, forget about it, all resonances will be shifted
and sometime by so much that my tuner could not compensate. Would have been great at 125$, but the current street price is a complete rip-off.

My life is now MFJ free and my blood pressure has improve. Stay away from that porcupine.
KD5FX Rating: 2020-05-05
Junk Time Owned: 0 to 3 months.
I put one of these up for a local new ham this week. This thing is very small, can't cover the lower HF bands because it's just too small. It's like a bunch of mobile whip antennas put on the same mount. 80 & 40 mtrs are very narrow, 20 is fairly narrow bandwidth too. I guess it's better than a light bulb but not much.