said by nasadude:one purpose of the test was to detect if ANY "licensed" device (in addition to a TV station) was using a white space frequency and then stay away from that frequency.
one complaint from the "white space deniers" was that the devices didn't detect all of the wireless microphones, but this was because the microphones themselves were using the same frequency as a TV channel (but apparently not causing any problem for TV reception) and thus hidden in the stronger TV signal (which was detected, but identified as being used by a TV channel, not a wireless mic).
As my post above points out however, only about 0.1% of wireless mics are licensed for use. It appears to be OK to be a "rogue" wireless microphone user, but not a licensed white space device user.
Now that makes a lot more sense. Thanks for the translation.
