[MilCom] Helping General Scannerland Hobbyists & Airshow Attendance

[Ken]

Once again this year at the Westfield International Airshow, there was 
probably 30 people or so with scanners walking around the the show grounds 
in a confused state.   The normal question was what frequencies should I 
listening too?  Than of course unless we knew the scanner model's frequency 
range we would normally have them try a one UHF frequency & if that didn't 
work than we would know WHAT we could give them....

Many of the general scanner land folks, lacked even a pencil & paper to take 
notes on  when you tried to give them frequencies.....  I noted a few hadn't 
even tied their shoe laces!!! :)

My feeling is that most of the high end scanner maufacturers (e.g. Uniden, 
ICOM, AOR, Yaesu) as well as Radio Shack should consider having at least an 
informational booth at some of the larger airshows/open houses, with some 
working equipment models..    Part of marketing is to create awareness of 
product availability to meet the consumer needs.  It may not result in 
instant sales but in the long term could result in increased sales.    I 
realize that there's some states' legal sales tax issues that may prevent 
the various mailorder retailers from attending most shows, so it's probably 
going to be the various manufacturers that will have to implement this!!!

Ken