[SBE] 700 mHz wireless mics --

[Bob Reite]

If you buy replacement gear from Shure, they will give you up to $1000 
rebate if you send them your old 700 MHz gear, any make!  They will make 
sure the old stuff is recycled responsibly. The offer is good till June 
  30, 2010.  For more info:
http://shure.com/ProAudio/Rebates/us_pro_rebate_wireless

Mike Langner wrote:

> Yes -- perhaps this'll help --

>  

> 

> The Federal Communications Commission has announced that it is ending 

> unlicensed low power device use in the 700 mHz region. The deadline for 

> discontinuance of any wireless microphones, wireless data transmitters, 

> and the like is June 12, 2010.

> 

> Here is an extract of the directive with a bit of historical perspective:

> 

> After a wait of roughly 14 months after the FCC’s Second Report and 

> Order on White Spaces, the agency has finally issued a firm date for the 

> cessation of wireless microphone systems in the 700 MHz band that has 

> been reallocated to new licensees. In essence, the use of any wireless 

> mic, in-ear or communications system in the 698 MHz-806 MHz range will 

> become illegal as of June 12, 2010, exactly one year after the DTV 

> transition occurred. Users of systems that operate in the 700 MHz band 

> are required to retire them by that date.

> 

>  

> 

> Good Luck!

> 

> Mike Langner, Albuquerque, NM

> 

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>     *From:* sbe-bounces at sbe.org [mailto:sbe-bounces at sbe.org]*On Behalf

>     Of *kjpx47 at cableone.net

>     *Sent:* Thursday, January 28, 2010 1:02 PM

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>     *Subject:* [SBE] (No subject header)

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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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