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Laurence Payne lpayneNOSPAM@dslDOTpipexDOTcom wrote:
Think of the FX mics around a football pitch, probably on the end of
several hundred metres of cable by the time it gets to the OB truck

Radio mics, surely? Just as it's a long time since I saw the roving
interviewer and his camera dragging a cable behind him? Maybe
things are less developed in America :-)

No - fx mics will usually be cabled. Remember many if not most football
grounds in the UK have at least some broadcasting cabling installed
permanently. As do racecourses.

If an FX mic has to be suspended above spectators it would need a rope etc
if a radio, so why not just use a cabled mic for this purpose?

Most sensible sound men only use radios when necessary. ;-)

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