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I'm a ham and have been into scanners since 1975. I don't have any ham antennas on my vehicles I've always used commercial antennas either on a NMO roof mount or mag mount. Right now I have a PCTEL UHF antenna for 70cm and GMRS and a PCTEL 5/8 for my 2 meter. I've never liked dual band ham antennas.

I doubt anyone is a really big fan of multi-band antennas (for obvious reasons)... as far as NMO mounts go, never used them except at work. Never had any problems with non-NMO mounts (yet) so either I got lucky or there might actually be non-NMO mounts out there that are good (shocked gasp!).
 
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