It’s been a week since the FCC voted on the issue of White Spaces. The cynic in me believes that they chose Nov. 4 as their day to vote figuring the rest of the country would be earnestly following the other election, and they could escape any real critique. That may be, but the techies [...]
Posts Tagged ‘white spaces’
White Spaces Filling Up
While most Americans are busy watching the results of the presidential elections, those of us who regularly use wireless microphones have been anxiously awaiting the results of another vote. The FCC voted today to open up the “White Spaces” to other unlicensed devices from Google, Microsoft, Motorola and others. While this will be a boon to internet [...]
Update on Wireless Mics & the 700 Mhz Band
Yesterday I listened in on a webinar sponsored by iLevite and Shure. Chris Lyons of Shure gave a good summary of where we are right now with the digital TV transition and the reallocation of spectrum. There wasn’t a lot of new information, mainly because there haven’t been that many developments, but it was a good seminar [...]
FCC Proposal to Ban 700 MHz Wireless Mics
ProSound Web issued a story on Tuesday that detailed an FCC proposal to ban all wireless mics operating in the 700 MHz band. You can read the whole story here. For even more information, click here to read the actual FCC news release in pdf format, or here to read the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking [...]
FaithTools #17 Is Up
Interested in wireless white spaces? How about set design? Or Twitter? Check out the latest edition of theFaithTools podcast. Colin just posted it, and it’s a lot of fun. There is some especially good discussion of the 700 Mhz band re-allocation and what that means to churches. If you’ve been ignoring this issue until now, [...]
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