<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453827985893_12920">I have a Leixen 898, and It seems to have a not very selective receive front end. I used it as an in-home local repeater monitor and I received some out of band land mobile radio stations, including a busy local ambulance service, while tuned to my local ham repeaters. I replaced the Leixen with the 25W KT-8900 and the problem went away. Granted I live in an RF rich environment (Southern, CA area(), but for this reason, I advocate purchasing one of the KT-8900 variants for under $100 on Amazon. it's approximately the same size, seems better built, is equally portable, and less susceptible to interference.<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453827985893_13049" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453827985893_13050" dir="ltr">Just my observations,</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453827985893_13063" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453827985893_13064" dir="ltr">73 de Ray, AE6H<br></div></div></body></html>