Friday, March 08, 2019
Professional Wireless Tackles Super Bowl LIII in Atlanta
Lighting&Sound America Online - News: Orlando, Florida-based Professional Wireless Systems (PWS) recently handled all wireless microphone and IEM systems management for pre-game, half-time entertainment and post-game -- along with the wireless microphone utilized by the referee -- during Super Bowl LIII held in the Mercedes-Benz stadium in Atlanta, Georgia. This is the 22nd year that ATK Audiotek has tapped PWS to provide wireless support for the Super Bowl.
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Clean RF frequencies are getting harder and harder to come by. I had enough problems at my high school just trying to find clean frequencies for a little more than 20 wireless microphones. That was in a relatively tame environment without too many other systems competing with us. In a scenario like the Super Bowl or other large events, those problems are magnified, and RF technicians have to get creative. Granted, at the Super Bowl, the RF technicians have to get creative with large budgets and access to all sorts of equipment (and authority. If they say they need a frequency, they can probably get access to it.) Even so, it’s got to be a challenge. It’s a big enough event that I wonder if they have to worry about malicious interference. It would surprise me if there’s not people that, whether for fame or money or just to cause chaos and problems, might try to jam the audio for the TV feeds or even the comms or IEMs to try to disrupt. I know that there are countermeasures you can take, but the Super Bowl is a big target, and it’s got to be difficult to keep signal secure.
Clean RF frequencies are getting harder and harder to come by. I had enough problems at my high school just trying to find clean frequencies for a little more than 20 wireless microphones. That was in a relatively tame environment without too many other systems competing with us. In a scenario like the Super Bowl or other large events, those problems are magnified, and RF technicians have to get creative. Granted, at the Super Bowl, the RF technicians have to get creative with large budgets and access to all sorts of equipment (and authority. If they say they need a frequency, they can probably get access to it.) Even so, it’s got to be a challenge. It’s a big enough event that I wonder if they have to worry about malicious interference. It would surprise me if there’s not people that, whether for fame or money or just to cause chaos and problems, might try to jam the audio for the TV feeds or even the comms or IEMs to try to disrupt. I know that there are countermeasures you can take, but the Super Bowl is a big target, and it’s got to be difficult to keep signal secure.
Though a lot of this article is technical gibberish to me, I do find many of the concepts presented to be very interesting. The shrinking of available frequencies is something that I only became aware of last year or the year before, as I was speaking to a peer of mine about why it was technically illegal for us to use old mics and receivers. Though I am not quite sure if this was hyperbolic or not, the idea of sound being limited in this way is very interesting. Lighting also deals with waves (of lights obviously), yet photons react in completely different ways than that of transmitted sound, radio, and television signals. And of course on any of these you want to make sure that you are limiting your interference to the absolute minimum, as too much noise could prove extremely problematic to whatever signal you may be attempting to broadcast.
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