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# [Wireless Microphone Compliance Guide for Small Entities Hits the Books](https://www.rfvenue.com/blog/2014/12/15/small-entitiy)

 Written by [Alex Milne](https://www.rfvenue.com/blog/author/alex-milne) | Dec 15, 2014 4:57:53 PM

Last week the FCC released a [wireless microphone compliance guide](http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2014/db0804/DA-14-1136A1.pdf) for small businesses and organizations. The guide is quite thin, for a guide, and it does not tell us anything we did not already know from the initial [R&O](https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-14-62A1.pdf) released earlier this year. *But, *it is a distillation of some relevant portions of that dense tome, and for that reason, if you don’t have the time to read the entire R&O (you don’t), your time will be well spent reading the guide. We also summarized some of the information in the R&O here.

The compliance guide covers the following topics: 

- The expanded eligibility requirements for facilities operating more than 50 devices, which now entitles them to Part 74 licensure. Sadly, there are no instructions for *how *a facility is supposed to go about obtaining a license. (Hopefully, the RF Venue blog will cover that in the near future) 
- Unlicensed devices will still be eligible for database protection under certain circumstances. We wrote about this process at length, [here](https://www.rfvenue.com/blog/2014/12/15/how-to-register-your-unlicensed-wireless-microphone-for-interference-protection-with-the-fcc).
- A reiteration of the hierarchical rights of licensees, and non-interference rules with higher ranking services. Part 74 users are secondary users, and must yield to primary users, like TV stations.
- A discussion of the obligation of wireless microphones to vacate spectrum auctioned in the incentive auctions. 

 

Image courtesy of the [Seattle Municipal Archives](https://www.flickr.com/photos/seattlemunicipalarchives/3746038295/in/photolist-ogi51y-bQp1in-8HCuVo-buZrQv-pke8X-638LoP-hRY3Bn-47CRB4-85nKV6-cT3mvJ-6H2qFa-fN6e6h-5UiPAC-8YtF15-63d2rw-fohuxQ-85qYyU-b6CF6M-4ZDxNY-5czxoH-dWikek-8crVfL-dWnrCx-4V1izL-dWTqaf-4WF6dF-mx6m4-k9Ksjw-8M2fac-8M2g2M-8M2dSp-3WUbiK-8M2c8B-bnUAEa-6wF8pp-85qSJy-bVMnr-9hnQPR-mx6yA-dWMLe8-8cZ8vg-2adrVV-dsmUN-dWnrDe-bxdso5-29Hb2w-eaqD64-dUqvSY-dWnrsz-9hqZtY). (Try and find a better picture to illustrate a post about small entitiy compliance guides, I dare you).

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