<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">The issues here are simple. As long as manufacturers could design products that didn’t interfere with broadcast TV and public safety communications, the FCC would look the other way, allowing sales to technically unqualified users like churches proceed unabated. As a result, wireless microphone sales went through the roof beginning in the mid-1990s, creating a huge user base that, in effect, became an entitlement class without legal standing.<div><br></div><div>There likely won’t be a “turn off the lights” moment when wireless systems all stop working or become illegal (except in the 700MHz range, prohibited as of 2/17/09).</div><div><br></div><div>I would ask the original company you ordered from if they have any programs to help you around this mess. </div><div>Imagine if all the churches got together and create a class action suit against this junk... </div><div><br></div><div>Bottom line is we were sold something hook line and sinker that we may not be able to use... Furthermore -Technically you should have a license for the frequencies your using most likely now - so its up to you if you really want to fill out form 600 and pay $75 for the licensed frequency for 5 years or not... </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div>On May 5, 2009, at 1:53 PM, <<a href="mailto:blloyd@buskercom.com">blloyd@buskercom.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="Section1"><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Recently our music director received a notice from a microphone company telling him that the FCC has mandated that we need to change our analog wireless mics to digital mics. Have any of you run into this problem? If so, how are you handling it? Have you found a way to purchase greatly discounted wireless equipment? As with most ministries, our financial resources are less than desired so this “transition” comes at a bad time. 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