My advice is to go old school. Since ctcss and trunk tracking have become standard features, manufacturers apparently feel that spurious signal rejection is no longer as important. My BC796D get's clobbered when I put it on an outdoor antenna, but my Optoelectronics Optocom and my Pro-2006 both work just fine.
For trunking, keep in mind the fact that there is software available which will enable your PC to control your receiver, in order to follow trunked systems on receivers with no built in trunktracking capability.
Using my Pro-2006 as the data receiver, the Optocom as the voice receiver, and running M Trunker for Motorola or E Trunker for EDACS, is still IMO the best system available for live monitoring at home. Mobile monitoring and digital audio logging are the only reasons I’ve kept the BC796D.
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