On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:15:33 GMT, "Brian Gaff"
wrote:

Did I dream this or not, I seem to recall that the government proposed to
move the radio mic band at some point, and wondered if this might have some
impact on the choices. Like others have said, not into the radio mic scene
myself, so have not kept up.

I agree about diversity though, some terrible nulls occur just where you
need them to work I understand. its that chap Murphy.

Brian

Part of the "digital switch over" will see the radio mic band move
from an analogue system in the TV UHF TV channels to a digital system
in the 1790 to 1798 MHz band. At the same time their status drops from
primary to secondary. What that means is that in the new band the mic
user must ensure he causes no interference to other services. The
current user of this higher band is the Home Office,

Digital switch over is now so close that in all fairness I could not
recommend anyone to but a UHF analogue mic. It would be money wasted.

For best advice I would recommend the OP to read an Ofcom statement:

http://www.ofcom.org.uk/consult/cond.../statement.pdf

This lays out the timings and concession on the UHF band.

d