RF project for a big TV show

[Bartek Chruscinski]

Hello guys I hope you can help my with makeing a good project.

Its a live TV show. Stage looks like this:


We will have 32 uhf mics, 20x IEM, 18xTelex
Monitor world is stage left.
The whorst part is the main catwalk and the width of the stage.

We need 3x main iem antenna and 1x cue (3x helical?) maybye some zones?
3x BTR antenna (what kind of antenna?)
4x antenna for mics. (we are using 4xshure LPDA and A-T active combiners and a master active splitter and another active splitters)

what is your idea for antenna placement and type?
We have any gear you need

 

[Rob Timmerman]

Re: RF project for a big TV show

There are many ways to approach this problem, but pretty much all of them require knowing where potential antenna locations are, where potential sources of interference are, where transmitters/receivers may be, and what obstructions exist. There isn't really anything magical or arcane about plotting coverage areas - you can get acceptable results by plotting only direct (line-of-sight) coverage and ignoring reflections.

Me, I'd start by looking for antenna locations over the stage and catwalk, perhaps on a lighting truss.