ProSoundWeb: In the spring of 1983, while working for a sound and lighting company in Toronto, I got tapped to mix a solo show for English guitar maestro Robert Fripp. The venue was an auditorium at the main University of Toronto campus in downtown Toronto, a smallish (500 or so seat) theatre with a proscenium arch stage and a single balcony.
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When I first saw the headline of this article I immediately assumed that it was going to be the story of some weird issue with radio frequencies. If there is one thing I know about radio, it is that it can often seem like black art. I have recently gotten my lowest level of amateur radio certification, and I have just begun scratching the surface of what kinds of weird things radio waves can do. While many of the phenomena that are studied by amateur radio operators are in regards to phenomena that will allow waves to travel huge distances, in theater, we often care a lot about the reliability of radio signals. I remember that in one theater that I have worked in, they were having issues with an intermittent connection on a wireless DMX system. It would very rarely have momentary dropouts, but nobody could figure out what was going on. We went as far as running a microwave onstage to see if the microwave interference from the cafeteria below was causing the problem, but as far as I know nobody has ever been able to actually fix that problem.
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