Re: [Harp-L] wireless rigs



I have been using wireless for a couple of years. I got a really good deal on a Nady wireless system. It has a body pack and is for guitars, but I can plug my own mike into it just as well, which is what I did. I did not want to switch to a new mike.

Nady is an inexpensive manufacturer. I was able to obtain my system, the UHF-16, for about $200. It is a great performer. You should not have to pay a whole lot more.

Here are characteristics that are very important in considering a wireless system.

1. Get a UHF system. The VHF frequencies are crowded and subject to interference.

2. Get a frequency-agile system. My Nady covers 16 UHF channels. If you are not frequency-agile, you run the risk of finding yourself on a used frequency. For example, I have had to change channels at some casinos at which I have played because security or other in-house users were on my usual channel.

3. Get a "diversity" system - one with two receivers and two antennas. That way, there will be no weak spots or places where you stand and get a hiss resulting from weak signal.

Again, I suggest you look at Nady (http://www.nady.com). They have consistently made reliable and inexpensive equipment.

Note that "hifi" should not be a consideration in your selection. If you have a good mike, any contemporary system will carry the signal with good fidelity. That is just the state of the art in solid-state electronics these days.

As an amateur radio operator of 50 years, I could spew a whole buncha technical stuff here, but if you just follow the three points I listed above, you will do fine. Good luck.


-LM





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