Today I joined some other amateur radio operators at the Comms Connect trade show at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre. Check in was efficient. Ralph VK3ZZC, Peter VK3YPG and Nigel VK3DZ were there too.
It was mostly pretty dry commercial stuff but Icom was there and even had some amateur equipment on display. Knowledgeable Craig Norris was there with all the Icom news.
Kenwood had a stand but there was no amateur gear, mostly DMR commercial stuff.
Telstra had some sort of life-saving drone idea but "it's going to have to be at least three times bigger than this" to be useful.
After the show we went for a very nice Yum Cha and then headed for one of Nigel's family bars "The Sherlock Holmes Inn".
Very nice. My thanks to Ralph for the bag of semi-conductors and happily I had a bag of NE602s for him.
On the train home I ran in to Ray VK3ACR, the world if full of Amateur Radio operators if you pay attention.
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Have been to Comms Connect before and it's a aimed at the commercial market not amateur (I was there for an event medical provider). Telstra had some great displays of their Regional Mobile Radio (RMR-VHF) drop-in vehicles and satellite trailer. Operates P25 for emergency services, great guys to talk to about the older SMR radio network as well I used allot in the late 90's - very impressive stuff Telstra have. Of course there is plenty of DMR and PTToC stuff as well. Everything has an IP address these days :-)
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