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We got to play with the Bluetooth feature, and it's pretty cool. Won't work with the Apple airpods, but we did get it working with a pair of Beats earbuds and also a one of those Bluetooth speakers.  Pretty cool, no kidding.  You could use a Bluetooth speaker as a squawk box instead of needing a separate wired box.

The Shure ones, and probably other decent quality center-fed dipole antennas, aren't really tuned to a specific single frequency but more of a range. So you do want to match the ranges as best you can.

Really skinny antennas do tend to be more narrow, though.

Maybe I should know this.........

Yes, absolutely just like a speaker is tuned for a driver an antenna is cut to frequency.

Any mismatch will cause power to be reflected back to the transmitter. 


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Proper procedure is to make all connections unenergized, inspect the entire cable / connection run and only then turn on the circuit breaker for shore connections ( shore in this instance means an installed electrical service point )
For generators there is an extra step. After making connections its important to test the service voltages between all legs and the legs and neutral+ground. Large generators can be set up for a variety of industrial loads beyond the usual single phase / three phase 115/208 VAC we are used to.
We for many years had an exceptional special event generator vendor who always sent a trained operator for set up instilling a lot of confidence in all of their customers. One event came up in which our customer hired a generator from a new supplier but assured us that a trained operator would be on hand. Come set up morning - in the dark of course - we provided tails and let the get op do his thing. Started the first chain motor and it moved all of about two feet and poof a bit of magic smoke came out. I checked the front of our PD and all three of the voltage meters were dead. I ran down to the generator and asked what's up. The Gen op said its all good here. I looked at the meters on the genny and found it was set for 460 VAC. The "trained generator operator" turned out to be simply the truck driver.
Trust but verify.

Pat [ or perhaps "the PatS" ] were the absolute best ii've ever worked with. The only time using a genie that you could just 'forget about it'....

Great review, I run DZR12s, and am very pleased with them, I do agree it would be nice if the covers attached at the bottom somehow, But otherwise the covers are really best in class. I rarely take them off at gigs.

I stopped trusting before you, but still had problems..

Everything checked out properly on day one of a two day hotel gig.  My brother flipped on the main breaker in the distro on day two, instantly almost all the fuses in all the FOH and monitor mix gear blew, the amps were undamaged as they were all turned off, but we always just killed the main breaker rather than turning off individual front end stuff.

Turns out a rookie house electrician had untied our tails after we had left, thinking we were loading out in the morning, then realized we were in for two days, then re-tied us swapping a hot for neutral.

Fortunately he had logged his action so we were able to get some money for the stuff that burnt up instead of blew fuses.

You just never can tell what will happen from day to day...

Art

Years ago, we used to have an old dimmer rack that was 100-A single phase. For a particular show, we handed the tails to the city electrician, or "electrician" as it turns out. The tails were the normal color for something like that: Black, Red, White, Green.

I got kind of a weird vibe from the guy, so I felt more inclined than normal to double check things. Turned on a breaker for a single edison recept on the distro to meter and had 208v from hot to neutral, and neutral to ground. Mr. "electrician" was nowhere to be found. We had to get moving with setup so I went to check the panel he tied us into. I noticed that there were only 3-pole breakers in there. I figured he probably would have just used 2 of the 3...but whatever. I pulled the cover off and found that he landed the Black, Red, and White on the 3-pole breaker, and the Green with the other Whites on the neutral bar. Fantastic. I moved everything around where it should be, and the show went well.

Up to that point, I *usually* metered before we turned anything on...especially if I wasn't the one making the connections. Since then, I've done it every time, no matter what. I also make it a point to check voltages periodically while the system is fired up and running before showtime. Doing this, I've found the occasional loose connection with enough time to take care of it well in advance of the opening number.

Maybe I should know this.........

Is the 2.4 better in domed arenas? 

With our 1.9 systems I've found that getting the transceivers higher up (like on the truss) does help quite a bit.

also there is a setting called audio filter, I think, that will help large arena dropout.

Is the 2.4 better in domed arenas? 

With our 1.9 systems I've found that getting the transceivers higher up (like on the truss) does help quite a bit.

For those of you that tour with FS II, have you had better luck with 1.9 or 2.4? I have the older 1.9ghz and have found it to be unusable in certain venues. CC recommends 1.9ghz in the USA, and I would think 2.4 would be pretty crowded, so hoping to get some real-world experience advice on what would be the best choice for a new system, being toured in the USA and Canada.
I wish they made a switchable transceiver and Beltpack!

The local university's athletics department has an 8 pack of Hollyland's 1.9GHz units and, from second person reports, they have had good luck with them.  This is in a Midwestern city of ~150,000 people.  I can report from personal experience that 2.4GHz wireless microphones are nearly unusable here.  You have to almost co-locate the receiver with the transmitter to use 2.4GHz systems once the audience shows up.