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/
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday August 14 2018, @12:16PM
My guess is even if there's a cell transmitter down the street, if you can get the stage hands to put your antenna in the set itself (taped underneath a table, perhaps) then you'd still win.
Of course the wireless mics on stage might interfere with the cell phone service in the first couple rows of the theater which is the legal problem.