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Wimbledon 2008
Date: 23 June -6 July 2008
Venue: Wimbledon, SW19 5AE
Welcome to JFMG’s Event Pages for the 2008 Wimbledon Tennis Championships.
We hope they will provide you with all the information you need when applying for frequencies for this year's event. We also hope to provide you with up-to-date information regarding spectrum availability and demand.
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Spectrum Issues
Timescales
The Coordination Team:
Lead: Keith Brogden Support:
Prue Menmuir
Contact: admin@jfmg.co.uk
We will be attending Wimbledon for a limited period during the event. Dates are to be confirmed.
Spectrum issues:
When applying for frequencies we would strongly advise customers to apply for those that we manage on a day to day basis. Take a look at the "Your Frequencies" page for full details of what this includes. We will try our best to accomodate all frequency requests within this spectrum, however if we have insufficient channels to satisfy demand we will seek special authorisation to use spectrum owned by another user.
Some requests include frequencies which JFMG do not manage. This means that we have to apply for authorisation from the spectrum owners via Ofcom. This process can make the licensing process more complicated and time consuming. We would therefore again advise customers to see if they could operate their equipment on those frequencies we do have direct access to.
TV Bands (470 - 862 MHz)
The most popular bands for presenter's microphone's and communications is 470MHz to 862MHz. It is currently used for broadcasting, but where a particular channel is not being used for television transmission it can be used by PMSE.
Channels 35 (582 - 590 MHz) and Ch 39-68 (614 - 854 MHz) are available for indoor/outdoor use.
Other things to note
Construction of the Centre Court Roof continues so this may influence the position of antennas.
The Broadcaster's Compound is a hot spot for inter-mods. Therfore it is vital to quote the location of your transmission equipment within the site.
2008 will be the final year where Vision Links at 2.4 - 2.68GHz will be available. This band will be auctioned some time during 2008.
CATV System - can normally be disregarded
Wimbledon 2008 will be a BBC HD Event so additional frequencies may be required this year. This could lead to capacity issues in some bands.
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Application Pack :
Please take the time to download our Wimbledon 2008 introduction letter and timescales information sheet as well as our application form below.
Download Wimbledon 2008 Introduction letter
Download Wimbledon 2008 Timescales flowchart
Download the Events Application Form - EF112
Timescales
We will send the application packs above to customers who visited last year's event in April 2008.
Please return completed applications to us by 12 May 2008
We will contact you regarding application progress from 23 May 2008.
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Major events not available on-line
You will not be able to book frequencies for major events on the web site.
They will appear already booked as the event co-ordinator will reserve them.
Please apply via the office.