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THAT FINAL ITEM: COORDINATING THE SUPERBOWL
And finally this week, a tale of frequency
coordination to the stars. Not the stars in the
sky but those on the football field at this
years Superbowl. It's also the story of the
part played in the process by a number of
Hoosier state radio amateurs. Here's Jack
Parker, W8ISH:
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INDY SUPER BOWL HAMS
Actuality Audio: "Check one two three four.This
is about a team an organization.I've just gone
from hotel to stadium..It was a great experience
oversall."
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From mic checks to Manning to Madonna to the man
on the street the airwaves around downtown
Indianapolis were full of frequencies from over
3500 hundred transmitters. For two weeks prior
to Super Bowl 46, and through the game itself,
hundreds of radio and television stations were
vying for radio spectrum in their efforts to
cover the greatest show in professional
football.
Keeping interference to a minimum is the job of
the Super Bowl Frequency Coordination Committee.
It is a team of 46, including 17 Amateur
Radio operators from central Indiana. Their
mission was to log, tag and tune all wireless
transmitters from broadcast media from around
the world.
As Super Bowl Sunday approached the job of
preventing interference became a super task.
The Indianapolis Super Bowl village, Lucas Oil
Stadium and major hotels are located in a one
mile square area. According to one volunteer,
that is a lot of RF in a small area.
According to organizers the area of frequency
control was expanded on game day stretching out
about 30 miles into the suburbs of central
Indiana.
The bottom line for all this effort, was to make
sure the radio transmitters to each quarterback
on the field was interference free throughout
Super Bowl 46.
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Actuality Audio: "Check one two..two..everyones
good."
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Reporting from Indianapolis, I'm Jack Parker,
W8ISH.
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Radio frequency coordination has become an
important part of many broadcast sports, but few
other than the Olympics require the amount of
spectrum as does the Superbowl each year.
(W8ISH)
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