Our town is having a new years celebration at the park clock tower this year, Its first ever.. And we wanna know do any of you have any ideas, other than a cheap sounding cell phone, on how to set up a cheap remote broadcast from that location to our station to broadcast over the air..? I know it sounds bad IM asking for cheap, but with no marti, and no equipment to do so.. Just wondering.. We have our own ideas, but wanted your opnion?
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an expensive-sounding cell phone! 
Can you give us an idea of the distance involved? What are we talking here? If you are close enough you could use a license-free 900 MHz link. I would guess you'd need to be within a few hundred feet to make that work.
Another possibility is a local dial-up circuit. Are you close enough that you could run a cable to a real plug-in-the-wall phone? You'd be surprised how gooda local circuit can sound if you drive it with a decent quality mixer. When I used to do remotes for my college radio station we used a Shure M67 (and later an M267) and drove the handset from the transformer-coupled output. We would dial up the number, unscrew the transmitter side of the handset, and clip onto the connections. Of course a dry circuit would sound better, but that would cost you $$.
Another possibility is a local dial-up circuit. Are you close enough that you could run a cable to a real plug-in-the-wall phone? You'd be surprised how gooda local circuit can sound if you drive it with a decent quality mixer. When I used to do remotes for my college radio station we used a Shure M67 (and later an M267) and drove the handset from the transformer-coupled output. We would dial up the number, unscrew the transmitter side of the handset, and clip onto the connections. Of course a dry circuit would sound better, but that would cost you $$.
quadraphonic said:an expensive-sounding cell phone!
How clever you are..! How clever indeed!
We use wireless wireless broadband card on a laptop at the location to access the internet then transmit to the studio via Skype.
the undork said:
I like this idea! 4 years ago I did a live broadcast on an FM station, using a laptop, a program called AudioTX to get the audio there, and VNC to control the station's playout server. Worked like a champ. Don't monitor off the air, after your live from that location however, because there may be a delay to deal with.
I've also used a Tieline and a Comrex POTS codec with good results, too. Sometimes they pop up on Ebay at a reaonable priced.
the undork said:
That's exactly what we did to broadcast prep football games this season. Worked quite well - except for the one time when we were in one of those gaps in the "sticks" that our provider isn't servicing.
Net Delay: minimal. Not too bad. Good alternative to one of those Comrex Access units.
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Small mixer wired into a laptop - stream onto ustream and play the stream on air at the station. Works great as long as you have internet access - can also use some of the good cell phones now to reliably access the internet.. A cell phone works too - and gives the live radio sound.
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