UBC125XLT 25 - 88 MHz, 108 - 174 MHz, 225 - 512 MHz, 806 - 960 MHz scanner

A practical scanner

With a good sized screen and keypad, as well as many different features such as "Call Close" which will detect nearby signals all this makes it a very popular handheld scanner for listening to airband transmissions.

It is able to receive both civil and military aircraft transmissions. You will also receive emergency, marine, amateur (radio amateur) and other communications.

It 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.

MODES

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 to listen to aircraft transmissions you should only use AM mode.

Search and scan

When using the scanner, you can use the "Search" mode where it searches through a range of frequencies until it stops when it finds a transmission to listen to, or you can use the "Scan" mode where you store specific frequencies in the scanner and it will only scan through these frequencies until it finds a transmission.

Scanner range

With the Uniden UBC125XLT scanner you easily pick up transmissions from an aircraft in the air because there are no obstacles between you and the aircraft, but you may not be able to hear the control tower of a nearby airport because there are obstacles such as the hills and buildings etc. if you want to hear the control tower as well as the plane, then you should visit the airport.