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[Hackett, Tom]

The FCC does: "OPERATION OF WIRELESS MICROPHONES IN THE 700 MHZ BAND IS
PROHIBITED AFTER JUNE 12, 2010"

 


>From the Washington Post:


Wireless mike users told to switch signals

Theaters, churches and other users of wireless microphones were given
five months to vacate U.S. airwaves that regulators say are needed for
high-speed Web services. 

The Federal Communications Commission in a statement Friday set a June
12 deadline for wireless microphone users to switch to different
signals. AT&T and Verizon Wireless, the two largest U.S. mobile-phone
companies, won a 2008 auction for rights to the airwaves, which had been
occupied by broadcast television and unlicensed microphone
transmissions. 

The order will primarily affect wireless microphone systems that operate
in the 700 megahertz frequency. TV broadcasters left those airwaves in a
transition to digital service that ended last June. In some cities,
public safety agencies have begun using the frequencies. 

There are still "significant unauthorized operation of wireless
microphones" in the auctioned airwaves, according to the FCC. The order
requires wireless microphone users to tune their equipment to signals
not auctioned in 2008, or buy new equipment that doesn't use the
auctioned 

 

Here is some info from Broadcast Engineering magazine:

http://broadcastengineering.com/audio/fcc-order-finalizes-ban-rf-mics-70
0mhz-range-0120/

 

 

And from the FCC:

 

http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/wirelessmicrophones/

 

 

Tom Hackett

Project Manager

Communications Engineering, Inc.

8500 Cinder Bed Road, Suite 100 

Newington, VA. 22122

 

Tel: 703-550-5800
Fax: 703-550-5180
EMail: thackett at commeng.com

WEB: http://www.commeng.com <http://www.commeng.com/>  

 

 

 

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Does SBE have any information about the use for wireless mics above 700
mhz, after June or july first?

Gary Kenny Member chapter 56

KJPX-35,Joplin.  

 

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