The exact model number escapes me, but, if you dig around in the antennas
section of the MFJ web page, http://www.mfjenterprises.com, you'll find it
for about $29.95. Do not go to the Hi-gain page.

It's a quarter wave on 2 meters, and claims about 2 db of gain on 440. It
looks like an older cell phone antenna with the open coil in the middle of
the vertical.

I ran one for 6 years on my apartment balcony, and will soon put it on the
roof of my house. It is the only 440 antenna I have. I don't really need
more than that, because outside of Jackson, the nearest 440 machine is over
60 miles away.

If you can get this little antenna up in a tree, or at least above the
housetop, you'll be surprised at how well it will perform for local work.

MFJ also has a small duel band beam for about $70.

If you're in an area that often has strong lightning, you better spend
another $70 or so and install a Polyphaser, or similar static discharge
system in the feed line of that 24 foot fiberglass model. Otherwise, you're
setting yourself up to be vaporized.


Mike Duke, K5XU
American Council of Blind Radio Amateurs