Honestly, if those freqs were your only need to scan, I wouldn't buy a scanner.

I would buy a commercial UHF handheld and program it for those freqs. Just have it programmed for receive only if your not permitted to transmit on that system by the owners.

Here is why- better battery life from a real transceiver than a handheld scanner using rechargable AA's. Especially when used just to receive, you will have much more battery capacity. In addition drop in charger works much faster when its time to recharge.

Your receiver will be more sensitive.

It will be far more rugged. It will handle drops, dust and wet weather much better, scanners don't like any of that.

You will have louder audio out.

If you want to program ham or GMRS or anything else in to transmit later, if its more than a 15 channel radio you can.

For what a scanner costs, and what you get, its almost impossible to justify buying a scanner when this can be had for under $70. and if you want it to do GMRS this is under $100.

Even if someone has no interest in ham or GMRS transmit ability, spending the same amount of money or just a little more to get that ability if you decide you want it later is prudent.

Now, if you had a list of 30-100 freqs across several bands you wanted to scan, then my advice would shift because the one thing a scanner does do better is it scans faster, so when scanning a ton of freqs you are less likely to miss something. But for just scanning 15 freqs this isn't a big deal at all.

Yeah, I had forgotten that the BF-888's will scan

OP, if you don't care about a display to show what frequency it stopped on while scanning, that is your least expensive option by far.

This radio for $14.50 and you will need This cable for $6 to program it using this free software.

Those radio are not nearly as durable as the ones I listed above, but at $14.50 buy two and consider them disposable

Now those are technically not legal for transmit use other than in the ham bands- but for use just as a scanner they are fine. The only downside is you won't have any way to know what channel it stopped on since there is no display.

Yeah, yeah I know that went against my normal advice.

However, in this case where it looks like he intends to carry it around at events that are outdoors and can include out in the weather, and where he wants a specific band and low number of freqs, I think he is better served with a commercial radio. But something a bit better than the UVB5.

Scanners are great in a household- and a must. But that is in a household. Carried out in the elements just about every scanner out there is a lot more likely to get damaged than a transceiver would be. They just are not made for it. Plus as I said you get far, far better battery life.