I'm lookin to start up a station downtown and was planning on setting up my transmitter on top of a tall building but I want to conceal the location of my studio so it can't be physically connected.
My initial idea was to connect some sort of wi-fi enabled device to the transmitter and have it route audio I would stream online to the transmitter but I realized I wouldn't have access to any wifi on the top of a downtown building if there even was any.
Then I thought about a 3G enabled device like a phone but the data plans are expensive enough to make it more worthwhile to spend more on a long distance audio transmitter or infrared transmitter instead. The problem with a normal audio transmitter is that the FCC would be able to track it, something I don't want.
So! I need something relatively cheap that can reliably receive audio data over wifi or 3G or infrared or something and has a headphone jack or some sort of audio out jack. I don't need it to be able to make calls or anything else.
This question gets asked a lot here but few have a good answer to it. The only things that come to mind is internet streaming to the location. STLs (studio transmitter link) can cost a lot of money for the equipment and like you said can be tracked back to the source. Using a quality phone line link and send the audio digitally over the phone line. Cell phones can be used since they digitally encode the audio and are usually private enough that the FCC would have a hard time tracking it but the analog audio sounds bad and sending digitized audio at high bandwidths just isn't possible unless using a solid phone connection. Microwave links is another option. All of those will set you back a good chunk of money besides the internet link option. Maybe send your audio through the internet to another place and then use that place to beam the audio to the transmit location?
Internet link can be tracked via IP address of the stream origin, unless you use an offshore proxy. (An international warrant will unlikely be in their budget)
ok guys, yall are being paranoid... first time offense will get you a cease and desist. if you get caught, shut it off and call it a day.
best way i have found to link the audio is stream like a webcaster from your studio and have a pc picking it up and tx location. problem is setting things up so when connection drops it will always re-establish itself. the internet is an unreliable place. setting up a big buffer will help abate this intermittency issue.
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