jamesmiller
Member
After spending much of today doing some frequency evaluations with Sennheisers online tool, and I hit a road-block in several of our tour cities.
I ordered 18 of the new G3 100's, with 6 receivers in each of the 3 frequency groups (22-27, 33-37 and 40-45) available for use in United States. I was hoping that this would give us maximum flexibility in getting enough frequencies available... WRONG.
According to Sennheisers software, several of our cities have NO available channels in the bands we need to use. For example, they are looking to do a show in Brooklyn, NY... Here is the readout according to their software:
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Channels Radius Att Available
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33-37 70 mi 30db (mixed) None
22-27 70 mi 30db (mixed) None
40-45 70 mi 30db (mixed) None
It didn't fare any better with a 40db (indoor) Att, with only an additional 3 channels that are "possibly" available in the 22-27 band.
It's at this point that I'm starting to wish I had made the purchase of a Sabine wireless systems in place of UHF.
Know, this is New York after all... So to be fair, I did an evaluation at another venue we are playing at. The software did show some available channels at various other cities, but most where "Should be usable" and not "Vacant".
I don't recall having this much trouble with our Sabine system, which we only have 9 channels of.... So that one can't work for our show. And since the Sabine system is going on the "Wonderland" tour, its not available to use.
I'm stuck here... Any suggestions? If I can't get this figured out, I'm going to return the Sennheisers and spend a few extra thousand on a new Sabine setup for our tour...
Thanks,
James
PS) Please don't say we should have gone with Shure's UHF-R. At nearly $3,500 per channel, that won't happen.
I ordered 18 of the new G3 100's, with 6 receivers in each of the 3 frequency groups (22-27, 33-37 and 40-45) available for use in United States. I was hoping that this would give us maximum flexibility in getting enough frequencies available... WRONG.
According to Sennheisers software, several of our cities have NO available channels in the bands we need to use. For example, they are looking to do a show in Brooklyn, NY... Here is the readout according to their software:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Channels Radius Att Available
--------- --------- ------- ---------------------------
33-37 70 mi 30db (mixed) None
22-27 70 mi 30db (mixed) None
40-45 70 mi 30db (mixed) None
It didn't fare any better with a 40db (indoor) Att, with only an additional 3 channels that are "possibly" available in the 22-27 band.
It's at this point that I'm starting to wish I had made the purchase of a Sabine wireless systems in place of UHF.
Know, this is New York after all... So to be fair, I did an evaluation at another venue we are playing at. The software did show some available channels at various other cities, but most where "Should be usable" and not "Vacant".
I don't recall having this much trouble with our Sabine system, which we only have 9 channels of.... So that one can't work for our show. And since the Sabine system is going on the "Wonderland" tour, its not available to use.
I'm stuck here... Any suggestions? If I can't get this figured out, I'm going to return the Sennheisers and spend a few extra thousand on a new Sabine setup for our tour...
Thanks,
James
PS) Please don't say we should have gone with Shure's UHF-R. At nearly $3,500 per channel, that won't happen.
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