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Originally Posted by mbenonis
*Technically, all wireless microphone systems are illegal to operate unless you are a television station or a movie studio and have a license for every frequency you operate on. However, the FCC looks the other way if you're not interfering with any TV stations. However, the risk for interference will be much, much greater once the reallocation takes place and wireless and public safety radio's are operating in the 700 MHz band.
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This is an important issue as the vast majority of VHF and UHF microphones use has never been technically 'legal' and has simply been accepted as long as it is not a problem. This is likely a factor in the frequency reallocations as in the eyes of the FCC and elected officials the vast majority of the existing wireless mic users are a non-entity and have no real claim to that bandwidth. So any argument on our behalf has had to be somewhat indirect through legitimate users such as licensed broadcasters or by less direct methods such as identifying to elected officials how this will affect their entertainment, worship,
etc.