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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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• Re:Again? (Score: 2) by Alfred on Monday August 13 2018, @11:23PM

  by Alfred (4006) on Monday August 13 2018, @11:23PM (#721169) Journal

  Once the bandwidth is allocated it will take time for new signals to crop up and start interfering. Every good wireless has multiple channels and can be changed to avoid interference. This has always been the case. Wireless mics have shared space with TV and you would have to reprogram mics when you went to a different city with different channels of TV broadcast. Depending on how this reallocation is used you may be able to skirt around it. Maybe not use as many mics but still it would work for some indeterminate time into the future but no long term guarantees.

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