New user thinking about buying a radio

[Albert149]

Evening, been a member since B52's were at Fairford last year but never posted before.
Thinking of buying a radio scanner to give a decent warning of any incoming in the next few weeks. Does anybody have thoughts about how far away I could hear incoming planes and get to the airfield about 15 mins from home?

[paddyboy]

Welcome aboard the friendly aviation forum

Perceived wisdom rates the Uniden UBC125XLT as a great choice of scanner

As for the range of signals, there are many peeps on here who will be able to advise you

Paddyboy

[Tiger 1]

You can keep an eye on the Heads Up and Exercise Notam sections which will give you a good idea and there is also the Bomber Deployment section for Fairford which is very good.

T1