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"The F.C.C. made some provisions for wireless microphones in 2010, after it kicked them out of the 700-megahertz band. It set aside two bands, near Channel 37 on the television spectrum, specifically to be used only by wireless microphones."

I didn't know that this was official? I love that there's no mention of wireless mics for film and TV production...

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Currently, the 700-800day mHz they took in 2010 is barely occupied.

 

Of course this is true. Anything that might be used by Big Phone in this band must first be tested in their own labs, then it must be tested by the FCC to be licensed... Then it must be manufactured in large numbers, and finally must be deployed to the tens of thousands of cell towers... Which may incur additional local permits and site surveys, tower rentals, negotiations, installation schedules...

That band will remain VERY available for several years I think. This "spectrum crisis" is quite a lot of hot air. Big Phone (all of them, but Vz and ATT mostly) are sitting on a MASSIVE number of licenses that they haven't even begun to deploy YET, not including any of the 700 mhz band. When you add in the ones that Comcast is holding, there is truly an enormous amount of the airwaves that have been removed from use by "the public" and sold off to megacorps.

 

The concept that the FCC is "protecting the public" by doing this is truly a gigantic farce. For everyone that sold off their B27/28/29 gear and bought B26... How's your wallet feeling? Ready to lose a giant wad again?

 

That's OK if you aren't. The FCC is here to 'protect' you, I'm SURE that this will be the last time they sell off the airwaves from under your gear. They wouldn't do that to you a third time, right? Unless of course they could get more BILLIONS from Big Phone...

Here we go again. All the industry comments and pleas from Shure, A-T, The Broadway Leagues... will once again fall on deaf ears that have been stuffed full of lobbyist money.

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"The F.C.C. made some provisions for wireless microphones in 2010, after it kicked them out of the 700-megahertz band. It set aside two bands, near Channel 37 on the television spectrum, specifically to be used only by wireless microphones."

I didn't know that this was official? I love that there's no mention of wireless mics for film and TV production...

 

Ch37 is listed as Radio Astronomy on the chart I'm looking at. 

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True - Channel 37 is sacred territory. Has anyone told the aliens that? Are we sure they have gear in that block?

 

All kidding aside, the only place (AFAIK) that is actually using that channel for RT work is a region of entirely radio-dead-zone in West Virginia. Not even any cellphone or old cordless phones are allowed to be used in that region, no RF of any kind in any block from what I remember reading.

 

But this article says the dedicated channel space was "near" channel 37. That could be above or below, and I honestly don't know exactly where that space is that the article refers to.

 

If we ALL are to be crammed into that small space however... How will the studios in LA deal with this, to say nothing of the TV work that happens all over Midtown Manhattan well within 1000 feet of the Great White Way of Broadway? This is a trainwreck waiting to happen. The various theatres of Las Vegas's casinos ALSO are already far exceeding 15-20 microphones in use, especially on any of the Cirque shows.

 

NAB should be fun this year, with everyone shortly to be aware of this new round of cash-grabbing from the FCC.

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Need to let the FCC and your congress folk (House & Senate) know we are out here, and part of the public using the public airwaves. Write to them and say you are against further sales of airwaves for exclusive (excluded) for profit use of the public airwaves. If you don't have a license from the FCC get one. There is power in numbers.  If you are silent big money will always win.

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