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  1. Sennheiser make one but it is hugely expensive so when I was at Sky we made our own till we go the Shure digital radio mics that are far better and we use them at the BBC in Salford now too.
  2. As for headsets we use HMD 26 or 27 now in broadcast but you may also be able to pick up an HMD 25 that will also do the job. In the old days before such headsets were available we used to just tape a Sony ECM50 inside a wind gag on a DT100 coms headset. We also used these Audio Technica ones on the 2014 Commonwealth games for commentator headsets and they sound great for a ,lot lower cost, you need a large wind gag on most of them though as they can blast a bit when used in close proximity: https://www.audio-technica.com/en-gb/ath-m50xsts?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIxevr3ZKAggMVweztCh1jkAqbEAQYByABEgKOUvD_BwE
  3. Your early warning wake up call is sponsored by those nice people from G4s and in conjunction with the CO-OP funeral service! 😀
  4. I did a very good radio mic training course at Sennheiser a few years ago when I worked for Sky and if you can get a hold of their book it is excellent too at explaining the effects of cabling and gain structure for aerials. I also used the 9000 and 6000 ser digital radio mics and they are far superior to the analogue ones. We also had the Shure digital radio mics at Sky and we have 16 channels of them here in Salford for BBC sport and they are superb too with none of the problems you get with analogue radio kit. They pretty much sound like a cabled mic now and the digital filtering means you can get a lot more channels per air space and I have never heard one of them drop out in the five years I have used them.
  5. Brought to you by those nice people that did track and trace plus G4s! I also saw that you now need a photo ID card to vote these days so they got that one through the back door too and no doubt have bought all the phone numbers from Tik Tok and Meta (facebook)
  6. Ah the joys of modern telecoms post BT sell off in the 80's. We have so much choice now don't we ??? but that copper bell wire is still the most prevalent system of transmission until Open Reach get around to digging up your street like the cable people did in the 1990's. I ditched my landline 10 years ago now as got sick of paying BT, SKY et all £40 a month for 350k broadband and now pay Three £15 a month for a 4G router and around 20-30 mbs of service. I have the same system on my boat in London but as it is the beautiful south they actually have 5G available with over 1,000mbs of speed available but as I don't live there Three won't allow me to buy a 5G router for boaty. No doubt once Open Reach et all have been paid twice to give us all that high speed stuff other countries have had for two decades there will be some new technology invented ala super wifi to connect everyone at last but high speed rail links to Birmingham seem to more of a priority. 😆
  7. I once visited a company in the North East called Tioxide and they made the pigment that was in most paints and other materials. It was titanium oxide and I found this source on e-bay so it may be worth a try: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/401924888661?var=672483654402&hash=item5d94971855:g:fDAAAOSw9odfT6DY&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAA4PI2nA45pxofGa2p%2B78nHhQuMFZD2q0XacQ8LTb%2FrRC7CFkTLZ2R4zQidGT1TP%2FxGJsrJ8T1UqXhVHgHcpp0nUgOOjNjHgASjdlm9NOBTTw2OxuV%2FGUCNMmiRdPse91Q%2BRyv%2B9YncyrSUiaWSj7UIG2bEDjVa1lKbxQxe4y2QC0tEf9%2FTFYB8fgtJQueLUp0lqKUQuPOVYkF5f1p278sDl2qSsSOFAtOuH%2FKCcZcHOxsq93trGjUjUtG0w59pVrBkZ57qB0fPSboOCIXmiwq0zRSnW7oPNlfV18cPf0fgHd%2F|tkp%3ABk9SR9LtycORYQ
  8. Several e-bay listings for the headworn cheaper option but I suppose you can also have a few spares: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/174910963483?hash=item28b9817f1b:g:rUAAAOSwJm1hKJgq&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAA8K%2BTfLuEcACUDzpv6psp0Uu17BMEj%2FYqsPeeuxBAhpKFhK6FMaNWZvEcVK3zu%2Bgx%2BxY0dxZ6Kf21BmchVrJU2UPU0lFP%2FIFRmfLN67FeWvTmIrFomW0CUS20MJWSH7V0ZKEYsoIZYqSRJFWocZh05l%2Fq9nYUUsYUaiIyArKvuE5IhwnsDxpqNrA6KooXO3Tej3AyUnKnga8%2BhKfe4rk%2BvpnhlnT1g9PdfWUvY2ik0i%2BodXi%2BGh8QX8hgz8uFv5mK%2B3oT3YZtHnGyxckbQyGjg4rIVN7CS1njHMHIYENAcGcQBo8%2B27GykUQJmyHWNEB6Xw%3D%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR97Gg9qMYQ I think the four pin can also be used with three pin packs but others may advise more
  9. The D25 was used on 2001 a Space Odyssey too:
  10. It's a D25 and pre dates the D12. They were used on film booms in the 1960's: https://www.vintagemicworld.com/html/Mic of the month November.html
  11. Sennheiser do a superb handbook on wireless systems and it is well worth seeking a copy from them as the cable v gain booster balance equation is quite critical to the system. https://en-uk.sennheiser.com/wireless-handbook-sennheiser-sound-academy
  12. You can get the adaptors for phantom to T power on e-bay: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/233253957403?hash=item364f04ef1b:g:B-oAAOSwnAdc~s0G
  13. Those bigger mics could be fichord? The fichord was also I think then made into a Calrec valve mic and I used to have a couple of them that are now in the Calrec museum. In the 80's we also used the Calrec 2010 and 2050 mics that had omni and cardioid screw on removable capsules but the threads were a lot more robust but they also had a short and a long extension tube available. When AMS bought Calrec in the early 90's they had Keith Ming there and he took over the service of the Calrec mics and then bought the rights to them and started Hebden Sound. He made some gold plated ones and they are the mics that you can see on the opening of Parliament when the Queen reads her Governments proposals. Sadly Keith is no longer with us but he was a lovely guy and always great to chat to when I worked at AMS Neve in the early 90's. We also had the Carlec / AMS soundfield mic then but that was sold off the Drawmer and then onto Soundfield inc.
  14. https://www.thomann.de/gb/superlux_hmd685a.htm Ok a bit more expensive by I bought some cheap e-bay ones for my RT units and they lasted 10 mins.
  15. Have a look at these TBS devices and I personally use one for IPTV streaming and find the software excellent: https://www.pciex.ne...s/hdmi-encoders I have the HDMI 2603AU NDI one but they also do SDI units.
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