UNIDEN UBC125XLT Portable Radio Frequency Scanner

A practical scanner: - With a good sized screen and keyboard, as well as many different features such as ´´call close´´, which will detect nearby signals, all this makes it a very popular manual scanner for listening to airline transmissions. - It is capable of receiving both civilian and military aircraft transmissions. it will also receive emergency communications, marine, amateur (radio amateur) and other communications. - Comes complete with an antenna, power supply, belt clip and user manual. the frequency range is 25-960 mhz (with gaps) and has a maximum of 500 channels. Ways: - The uniden ubc125xlt scanner usually allows you to set either am (amplitude modulation) or fm (frequency modulation). it may also have nfm (narrow fm) and wfm (wide fm), but you should only use am mode to listen to aircraft transmissions. Search and scan: - When using the scanner, you can use the ´´Search´´ mode in which it searches through a range of frequencies until it stops when it finds a broadcast to listen to, or you can use the ´´Scan´´ mode where you store specific frequencies in the scanner and it will scan only through these frequencies until it finds a transmission. Scanner range: - With the uniden ubc125xlt scanner, you can easily pick up transmissions from an aircraft in the air because there are no obstacles between you and the aircraft, but you may not hear the control tower of a nearby airport because there are obstacles such as hills and buildings etc. if you want to hear the control tower as well as the plane, then you should visit the airport