base vs handheld

[chaser915]

here is my dilemma: I live about 20-30 miles away from where alot of the action is. I still get plenty of signals, but not the police in two of the bigger cities I live near. One is on 154-155 freqs the other is 800 trunked. I should add there are some mountains in the way...yet I still get some signals from "the other side".

So, I was going to pick up the pro 2055 but after reading of some of the problems, I may just get the pro 97. With all things being equal, do you feel that reception should be as good on the handheld as it is on the base/mobil....whatever the pro 2055 is?

Keeping in mind my geographic location, I wanted to know what you thought. I ask partially because I have a pro 2050 with the original antenna and it pulls in signals that I cannot get on the pro 95-and that has a $50 antenna from scanner world attached.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

 

[Turbo68]

An outdoor mounted Antenna is the best solution and then it should solve your problem in
receivng signals and regardless what Radio you use if you dont have a god antenna they will not pull signals in and as for that I got the latest ICOM-R9500 and without a good antenna it will not receive anything and thats an expensive Radio and a lot of People do not realise they spend money on a good Radio but they fall short on buying a good Antenna.

Regards Lino (Melbourne Australia)ALININCO-DJX2000E,AOR-3000A,AOR8200MK3,ICOM-R5,ICOM-R20,ICOM-PCR1000,ICOM-R2500,ICOM-R9000,ICOM-R9500,MAYCOM-AR108,UNIDEN-245,UNIDEN-780,UNIEN-396,UNIDEN-996,RADIO SHACK-PRO96,REALISTIC-PRO96,YAESU-VR500,YAESU-VR5000,YAESU-VX7R.