It looks like the FCC plans on making all our wireless mics useless

I know Doc but I have two 2 year old Lectrosonic systems that I have nearly 7k in. I would like to be able to use them a little longer.
 
Where have you been? The notifications on this went out over two years ago. My church has already had to make the conversion.

That being said, you are still allowed to use legacy equipment unless it interferes with new services, then you are the one who has to stop. And forget about getting repairs.
 
Sad Max said:
A new source of radiation exposure. Cool.
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Yeah, no doubt about that. But God forbid I can't check my Facebook status everywhere, anytime I want. :Drogar-BigGrin(DBG)

Now just to be clear, the obsolete frequency in question is the 700 range, right? Which yes, we've been talking about for the last two years.

Or are there more changes on the horizon I should be aware of before I buy any new wireless gear?
 
Dick Campbell said:
Where have you been? The notifications on this went out over two years ago. My church has already had to make the conversion.

That being said, you are still allowed to use legacy equipment unless it interferes with new services, then you are the one who has to stop. And forget about getting repairs.
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This is not the frequency that was recently taken by the FCC it is a whole new set of frequencies. Read the article!
 
They are moving into the frequencies recently vacated by analog TV channels from the HDTV switch. Some other wireless frequencies are involved in the reallocation, like our subject wireless mics.

The freqs below 1000MHz have much less loss passing thru walls, etc. than the 2.4 GHz sigs currently being used for wireless, hence the "super" wireless label.

It's just more bucks for the gov.
 
As documented here, about two years ago, somebody from Audio-Technica told me that wireless as we knew it would be gone within three to five years. That said, the alternatives haven't been coming along as fast as he predicted, so who knows at this point...
 
Virtually every form of media transmission, including video and audio, is rapidly moving to packetized digital formats compatible with Ethernet. That is where wireless mics will go too ultimately. Digital networks like Cobranet will give secure interference free point to point transmission of multiple channels of audio via standard wireless Ethernet routers.
There are already some very interesting new wired network based audio devices hitting the market. It is not a very big step from here to wireless.
http://www.mymixaudio.com/
 
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