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After the reviews - here, for example - they may well wish to remain anonymous. But it would be really interesting to hear opinions from people who actually know what went on!

I've had great success with the Coredy AC1200 dual band WAP - which does include DHCP. I'm using it with an X32 for tablet remote access, and with an X18. The dual band bit is really helpful. Proved completely reliable so far.

The spec sheet says 300mA at 13V, so 1.2A at 13V. I would imagine that 12V would be fine if well regulated - 12V PSUs are easy to come by.

Aerials from an old router?

 

plugged into one of these http://cpc.farnell.com/sac/ae9701/in-line-sat-amplifier/dp/AP02364?st=satelite amplifier

then something like this http://cpc.farnell.com/vision/111730/splitter-2-way-5-2300mhz/dp/AP02599?st=satelite amplifier

 

Or maybe even into one of these for four outputs. And the setup above could be duplicated for diversity systems that have two antennae. But I think that the connectors would need some work - routers use reverse SMA, and satellite gear uses n-type. You may need something like this to adapt.

At the risk of being slightly off topic. The shared license which gives you CH38 plus Ch65 and a bit of 66 is £75 for 1 year (If paid online) These are frequencies that are reserved for PMSE. 2.4GHz while licence exempt is full of other stuff, Bluetooth, WiFi etc. If going for digital radio systems, I would look for ones that operate in CH38 and not compete in the 2.4GHz band. I have lost count on the number of gigs I have done where the Line 6 2.4GHz guitar wireless that the artist has bought with them workes lovely in sound check, but when 500+ mobile phones all pushing out 2.4GHz come into the room they stop working. The reality is, the shared license is not that expensive and I believe you will get better reliability from devices in the shared frequencies. They are a lot less congested.

 

While I agree completely with the point you are making - that 2.4GHz has congestion issues - systems that don't operate in that band aren't ever going to be budget. Economies of scale - that's why all the budget UHF is still channel 70. And I didn't know that digital systems were available in Ch38 - I know of systems using 1.9GHz, and that might be a better bet. 2.4GHz will still be where all the cheaper stuff goes, though. Interesting that this Trantec seems to be specific frequency, rather than the Line6, which I think is frequency-hopping? That's going to make the Trantec rather vulnerable, I would have thought.

We're just buying the Gala Pro-40 3x4.5m, and it's an excellent product. I guess two things. It's 10 times the cost of the Argh-os special, so you could go for one of those and treat it as a disposable. And even a good gazebo like the Gala won't stay up in strong winds. Make sure you budget for tie-downs, leg weights or whatever as well.

The Radial puzzles me. It's a lot more expensive than the ARX, it doesn't run off phantom power, but instead uses a separate wall-wart style PSU. And it has a pair of separate isolating transformers (in addition to a ground-lift switch) which you can use 'in case of ground loops'. But the only way you could get a ground loop into this system is through the power supply - and if that had come from the mixer via phantom, you wouldn't have that problem. Then they have also added a 3.5mm output socket for headphones - 'for monitoring' - which they point out goes very loud. So they have added a volume control. Which not only affects the monitoring headphones, but also the main L&R XLR outs. I think Radial have made a few strange choices with this one!

 

E2A - the ARX gets round power limits on phantom by requiring that phantom is active on both the XLR channels - so you can't drop down to mono to minimise the channel count.

I've got an event coming up next year (typical outdoor fete style of thing) and I'm used to people turning up with all kinds of devices and asking if they can play the background music for such-and-such. Two questions. Up until recently, the 3.5mm Jack was almost a universal solution. What would be needed to cope with the newer iPhones? And does anyone have experience of Bluetooth kit, like the ARX Blue Di?

 

I do realise that the easiest option is to insist on a particular format, but I would rather be prepared to cope.

Does it not like something thats in it? Literally just ripped the UK version of the software off the disk and zipped it.

Chrome says 'Trantec S5 Monitoring.zip is malicious and Chrome has blocked it' Firefox doesn't seem to mind, though.

My antivirus really doesn't like that file...