It works well in the Truck and it works GREAT sitting on a cookie tin on a shelf in the house. I can hear State police simulcast with good strong signal now, where as before they were very scratchy
I've used the Autin for quite some time now and I am on my second one. The first one lasted me a long time until it met the garage door one day. Always have had agood reception with them.
I've had mine for a few years now and it's fantastic!! It sits on the back of my Jeep with almost no ground plane, and still performs very well. Even at 800Mhz... AF5RN - you said you had problems above VHF high...Did you have good coax? With poor coax, the higher freqs are the ones that take a beating.