Is 548.200MHz good to use for wireless TX/RX kits?

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dman

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#1561032 27-May-2016 23:44

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dman:

How much of an issue will Sky Movies (Channel 30) be for me with a 548.200MHz wireless kit? Is it a big enough gap away from it, or is this too close?

Given Sky shut down their analog channels in 2011 its hardly any issue

GREAT NEWS! This is **exactly** what I want to read :-D :-D :-D

kiwiharry:
Spyware:

dman:

How much of an issue will Sky Movies (Channel 30) be for me with a 548.200MHz wireless kit? Is it a big enough gap away from it, or is this too close?

Given Sky shut down their analog channels in 2011 its hardly any issue

Except Channel 30 is now a DTV channel for Igloo transmitting from Remuera.

Ohhhh.... drat. :-/

Wikipedia says Channel 30 that they use is 546Mhz:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igloo_(TV)

Sounds like that will be enough of a gap for a 548.200MHz to work on? (looks like 569.275mhz & 182.075 MHz are worth a gamble too)

This is confirmed over here:
https://www.igloo.co.nz/assets/documents/IGLOO%20UHF%20Distribution%20Technical%20Details.pdf

Looks like I'm in the clear? :D

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knoydart

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#1561073 28-May-2016 08:11

dman:

Wikipedia says Channel 30 that they use is 546Mhz:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igloo_(TV)

Sounds like that will be enough of a gap for a 548.200MHz to work on? (looks like 569.275mhz & 182.075 MHz are worth a gamble too)

This is confirmed over here:
https://www.igloo.co.nz/assets/documents/IGLOO%20UHF%20Distribution%20Technical%20Details.pdf

Looks like I'm in the clear? :D

So DTV Ch 30 goes from 542 - 550 MHz, 546 MHz is the centre frequency of the DTV channel.

Also 182.075 MHz is only available until 2019, when the VHF radio mics general user radio licences are sunsetted.

kiwiharry

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#1561086 28-May-2016 08:41

knoydart:

dman:

Wikipedia says Channel 30 that they use is 546Mhz:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igloo_(TV)

Sounds like that will be enough of a gap for a 548.200MHz to work on? (looks like 569.275mhz & 182.075 MHz are worth a gamble too)

This is confirmed over here:
https://www.igloo.co.nz/assets/documents/IGLOO%20UHF%20Distribution%20Technical%20Details.pdf

Looks like I'm in the clear? :D

So DTV Ch 30 goes from 542 - 550 MHz, 546 MHz is the centre frequency of the DTV channel.

Also 182.075 MHz is only available until 2019, when the VHF radio mics general user radio licences are sunsetted.

As per my earlier post, DTV uses the entire 8MHz TV Channel.

This is what analogue TV broadcast signal use to look like.

There was plenty of white space in the TV bands

This is what digital TV broadcast signals look like.

As you can see the entire 8MHz block is used. The spectrum in your area could look like this because you have the infill transmitter signals from Remuera and the main transmitter signals from Waiatarua.

Where are you looking to use the mic. Indoors or outdoors?

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dman

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#1561142 28-May-2016 11:46

knoydart:

Also 182.075 MHz is only available until 2019, when the VHF radio mics general user radio licences are sunsetted.

Oh, what is going to happen to those frequencies then?

Even so, use until 2019 could be ok and long enough for me.

kiwiharry:

As per my earlier post, DTV uses the entire 8MHz TV Channel.

This is what analogue TV broadcast signal use to look like.

There was plenty of white space in the TV bands

This is what digital TV broadcast signals look like.

As you can see the entire 8MHz block is used. The spectrum in your area could look like this because you have the infill transmitter signals from Remuera and the main transmitter signals from Waiatarua.

Where are you looking to use the mic. Indoors or outdoors?

Thank you! Very informative (though sad :-/ ) post, clarified a lot for me :)

And I'd be using these mics both indoors and outdoors.

Anyway, sounds like I'll have to unfortunately pony up the extra buckets of gold to get Lectrosonics 200 series instead :-/ As anything older seems to too often carry too greater risks of not working.

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dman

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#1562691 30-May-2016 22:19

I stumbled across this today. Could be a godsend for soundies working in film, to help optimize their wireless set up and avoid interference issues.

This looks AMAZING:

http://rfexplorer.com/touchstone-mobile/

& some of them are very cheap too:

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/WSUB1G-Handheld-Osciloscopio-100mhz-Scopemeter-2014-RF-Explorer-USB-Digital-Spectrum-Logic-Analyzer-Oscilloscope/32278815087.html?spm=2114.01010208.3.150.MSsbjo&ws_ab_test=searchweb201556_7,searchweb201602_2_10017_10021_507_10022_10020_10009_10008_10018_10019_101,searchweb201603_6&btsid=028db200-a803-4fb6-8771-e878d82f9899

https://www.youtube.com/c/SoundSpeeding

dman

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#1562706 30-May-2016 23:03

Found this handy guide:

http://www.rtl-sdr.com/rtl-sdr-quick-start-guide/

& Oh wow this costs almost nothing!! :-D

I have a Windows 10 tablet. So hopefully I can pair this with that and use it on set ;-)

https://m.aliexpress.com/item/32613225269.html

https://www.youtube.com/c/SoundSpeeding

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