Wireless Video Systems

Here is how the work lines up. Wireless video stock in New York is held through Stray Angel NY, Boland Communications, NTP Technology, AbelCine LIC, Sim Group NY, and ScreenWorks, with Adorama Rental Co at the Brooklyn Navy Yard and TCS Cine Services in Greenpoint filling overflow. Our rental team books the full Teradek Bolt range. Bolt 4K LT, Bolt 4K Max, Bolt 6 XT, Bolt 1500 LT, and the legacy Bolt 3000 and 500 — with 6-receiver fan-out to feed director's village, agency clients, focus puller, DIT cart, and the live-stream encoder when commercial work demands remote agency review.

Here is the breakdown. Vaxis Storm 3000 and Atom A5 cover the smaller documentary and indie crossover days. Hollyland Mars systems stage for B-camera and behind-the-scenes feeds. NYC is the densest RF settings in the United States — between FCC-licensed TV networks out of Empire State, One World, and Rockefeller, FAA radar at LaGuardia, JFK, and Newark, mobile carrier 5G mid-band rollout, and the simultaneous shoots shooting across Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx, the post-700 MHz auction range is contested each shoot day. Frequency planning through the FCC, IATSE Local 600 RF engineers, and the SEMS scanner sweep run before each Teradek pair is married up.

Each transmitter and receiver pair leaves the rental house bench-tested — antenna gain logged against the panel and omni stock, V-mount and Gold-mount battery cycles measured, SDI and HDMI passthrough checked at 4K and HD at 23.976, 29.97, and 59.94 fps, and the colour space and HDR metadata flag preserved through the Bolt 6 XT chain for the streaming series and feature deliverables.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. Our team runs a SEMS scanner sweep at the location. Manhattan brownstones, Brooklyn Navy Yard Steiner Studios, Silvercup Long Island City, Kaufman Astoria, York Studios, Hudson Valley unit moves — and books frequencies through the FCC RF planning process, working alongside the Local 600 RF engineers managing IFB, Comtek, Sennheiser, Lectrosonics, and Wisycom audio gear on the same call sheet. Antenna positioning runs panel and omni paddle stock with Boland directional antennas for the longest throws across Steiner Stage 5 and Silvercup floor.

SMPTE fibre converters take over when range tops 1,500 feet line-of-sight. The MOME Made in NY permit and FDNY fire-watch forms move through our office ahead of camera. A 24-hour replacement cycle out of Long Island City. The Navy Yard keeps spare receivers and antenna kits on the truck through wrap.