Hi John,
Agreed regarding Kamal's talk. For me, it was refreshing to hear someone from RSGB admitting that there was a problem, and identifying some of the reasons. I agree that fixing it's hard, but the first step is to acknowledge there's a problem.
Fair cop regarding 'VHF and Up', although in my defence, the write-up was a summary of my experiences at the convention - As I didn't get to Chris G0FDZ's talk, it was very hard for me to comment on it in my summary! I've learnt from previous Conventions that the trick seems to be to get to the interactive / group sessions in real-time and then watch the specialist presentations on video as they get released. Had I time, there were several other talks I would like to have got to, including "why won't it decode", FT-8 on VHF, Mike's talk on the on Baldock, Noel on EME and Steve Nichols on propagation, plus a couple more ARISS topics. When the vids get released, I'll be watching. That said - I've happy to publish any submissions received to the Essex Ham audience, to give people more of something different ;)
Pete M0PSX
Pete M0PSX