Of course if you ask 10 people this question you'll receive 15 different answers. The best "all" band I have ever found is the Watson WSMA-801 find it at scanner master. The Austin condor is a gimmick Antenna "way" to heavy and large for the sma connector on the 396 even with the adapter.. Besides not working well at all it looks absurd. The stock antenna is actually not bad on my 396XT but the Watson is better for all band use. The shack 800 antenna is about the best around for the 800 band....I do wish they would make an SMA version. Do yourself and big favor and don't waste your money on the Austin Condor buy the Watson...you will like it and besides it won't break the connector on your small scanner. I just counted I have 53 hand held antennas and 7 outside....think I've tried them all over the past 40 years of scanning....that condor POS is at the bottom of the junk drawer.......
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I have used all the antenna mentioned below, there all goioid but have issues.
I don't know if Watson
has an SMA version though.
Ohioscan
Of course if you ask 10 people this question you'll receive 15 different answers. The best "all" band I have ever found is the Watson WSMA-801 find it at scanner master. The Austin condor is a gimmick Antenna "way" to heavy and large for the sma connector on the 396 even with the adapter.. Besides not working well at all it looks absurd. The stock antenna is actually not bad on my 396XT but the Watson is better for all band use. The shack 800 antenna is about the best around for the 800 band....I do wish they would make an SMA version. Do yourself and big favor and don't waste your money on the Austin Condor buy the Watson...you will like it and besides it won't break the connector on your small scanner. I just counted I have 53 hand held antennas and 7 outside....think I've tried them all over the past 40 years of scanning....that condor POS is at the bottom of the junk drawer.......
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