I'm in Warrington, flying from Liverpool. What device would work over that distance?
Can't help you there, I live a couple of miles from the airfield. Downstairs a Sony Air 7 will pick up what the pilots are saying, upstairs on a good day it'll just about get the tower as well.
So, one morning I was lying in the bath, listening to one of the instructors climbing up through the cloud to find out where the tops were. Eventually he broke through into sunshine at around 4,000', saying that he was on full throttle and just about able to hold straight-and-level - "never seen that much ice on the wings of a 152 before". (Note: (a) do not try this at home; (b) they don't make them like that any more.)