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The Strange David and Goliath Saga of Radio Frequencies

posted by martyb on Monday August 13 2018, @12:47PM   
from the project-your-voice dept.

Fnord666 writes:

The email blast from the head of my son and daughter's theater group relayed a frantic plea: "We need to raise $16,000 before the upcoming spring performances," Anya Wallach, the executive director of Random Farms Kids' Theater, in Westchester, New York, wrote in late May. If the money didn't materialize in time, she warned, there could be a serious problem with the shows: nobody would hear the actors.

Random Farms, and tens of thousands of other theater companies, schools, churches, broadcasters, and myriad other interests across the country, need to buy new wireless microphones. The majority of professional wireless audio gear in America is about to become obsolete, and illegal to operate. The story of how we got to this strange point involves politics, business, science, and, of course, money.

Story: https://www.wired.com/story/wireless-mics-radio-frequencies-fcc-saga/

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Original Submission

• ESP9266 or Raspberry Pi connecting to wifi (Score: 3, Touché) by Uncle_Al on Monday August 13 2018, @03:44PM

  by Uncle_Al (1108) on Monday August 13 2018, @03:44PM (#721014)

  The problem is latency, esp if you have any voice processing in a mouse fart processor like that.

  Add that to room echo, and you'll end up with really confused people on stage hearing their voice with second+ delays.

  Radio just has the problem of room acoustics.

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