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What a bombshell! Just a few weeks before the European elections, the European Commission has published a new white paper entitled “How to master Europe’s digital infrastructure needs?”. Among other things, it plans to bring spectrum policies, which have so far been primarily national, completely under the curatorship of the EU. So far, the CEPT…

At the dawn of 2024, things look grim in many parts of the world torn by appalling, never-ending wars and massacres. However, turn your eyes to culture and the view starts to look up. The WRC-23 went well indeed for cultural frequencies. Although details will only settle for good once the conclusions are formally published…

The UHF TV frequency band in Germany is occupied by wireless applications for culture and event technology as well as terrestrial television transmission. This is the result of current evaluations by Dipl. Ing. Ing. Ing. Matthias Fehr, freelance HF technology consultant, IKHF. He has carried out mobile frequency monitoring with small antennas in Germany, covering…

At the World Radiocommunication Conference in Dubai, the interests of the culture and the event industry will be represented by members of our partner association APWPT. We are fighting to preserve our frequencies! A report on the current situation at the beginning of the third week of the conference can be found here: https://apwpt.org/news/?lang=en

A very good new study has been published at the “Berlin University of Technic”: “Investigation of the effects of a 3rd digital dividend on the use of wireless transmission technology in the event industry” by Florian Glaß (in German language, English abstract on page 4) https://prof.bht-berlin.de/fileadmin/prof/alindau/99_MEng_Glass_Web.pdf In his work, author Florian Glaß uses older and…

The World Radiocommunication Conference 2023 (WRC-23) has begun. The venue is Dubai this time. The conference lasts until December 15. Our initiative “SOS – Save Our Spectrum” has an ear in the conference hall. We find out how the cultural frequencies are being discussed. Our position corresponds to that of the APWPT e.V. (Association of…

The Olympic and Paralympic Games will be held respectively from July 26 to August 11, 2024 and from August 28 to September 8, 2024. The Spectrum Booking Portal (SBP) allows a stakeholder to create requests for frequencies according to the Spectrum Management Plan, which defines rules, policies, and conditions regarding the usage of wireless equipment…

Informative update on the focus Many years of radio frequency monitoring in content and event production (Conference from 10thNovember2022 held by Dipl. Ing. Ing. Ing. Matthias Fehr). The APWPT e.V. team, together with many organisations, has participated in event productions over the years, observing and recording, where possible, their frequency use, including wireless microphones, their…

Here you will find the text of the 2nd Call to Europe (C2E2) of November 2022 and materials for marketing to the press and social networks. (1) Banner C2E2_Call_Banner_Website C2E2_Call_Format_Facebook C2E2_Call_scalable (SVG) (2) Call to Europe (with logos) Call to Europe Call to Europe “logo wall” (all logos on one page) (3) Call to Europe…

We would like to bring to your attention the Spectrum Management Plan for the Paris Olympics. https://medias.paris2024.org/uploads/2022/07/Paris2024-220725-Spectrum-Management-Plan-EN.pdf On page 19 it quite clearly advises against the use of wireless microphones or IEM. This is certainly against the background that there is not enough spectrum available locally. Photo: Rudy and Peter Skitterians on Pixabay