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In my opinion .. handheld scanners come with some disadvantages compared to base unit scanners.

I have been listening to scanners for over 30 years and I live by 2 rules ... don't hook outside antenna to them and they are not as good as base unit scanners.

So ... I am not surprised by your findings. I would expect that VHF / UHF performance would be fine as well as 800 MHz.

VHF Lo .. I would expect to see performance like HF frequencies, very likely to be very noisy.