Re: [CentOS] live audio feed via telephone link

2009-03-31 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Frank Cox wrote: > On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:28:30 -0500 > Lanny Marcus wrote: > >> The OP is in Saskatchewan, Canada. Hopefully, as a later poster >> suggested, the Canadian government has some $ available, to contribute >>  for this project. I believe the distance

Re: [CentOS] live audio feed via telephone link

2009-03-31 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:28:30 -0500 Lanny Marcus wrote: > The OP is in Saskatchewan, Canada. Hopefully, as a later poster > suggested, the Canadian government has some $ available, to contribute > for this project. I believe the distance is much too far for WiMax, > even if it were line of sight,

Re: [CentOS] live audio feed via telephone link

2009-03-31 Thread Les Mikesell
Lanny Marcus wrote: > >>> It sounds like this location is just begging for wimax or some other >>> suitable internet service. What kind of place can support a radio >>> station but not an internet presence these days? >> the original poster indicated the FM station was on an American Indian >> res

Re: [CentOS] live audio feed via telephone link

2009-03-31 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 3:14 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: >> It sounds like this location is just begging for wimax or some other >> suitable internet service.  What kind of place can support a radio >> station but not an internet presence these days? > > the original poster indi

Re: [CentOS] live audio feed via telephone link

2009-03-30 Thread Les Mikesell
John R Pierce wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: >> There are some satellite internet providers that might work too, but the >> consumer-priced versions like Starband and Wildblue have usage caps on >> their normal plans so you'd have to work something out. >> >> > > and they ALL have very slow upl

Re: [CentOS] live audio feed via telephone link

2009-03-30 Thread John R Pierce
Les Mikesell wrote: > There are some satellite internet providers that might work too, but the > consumer-priced versions like Starband and Wildblue have usage caps on > their normal plans so you'd have to work something out. > > and they ALL have very slow uplink speeds until you get into ve

Re: [CentOS] live audio feed via telephone link

2009-03-30 Thread Les Mikesell
JohnS wrote: > On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 22:34 +0200, Michel Daggelinckx wrote: >> John R Pierce wrote: >>> Les Mikesell wrote: >>> It sounds like this location is just begging for wimax or some other suitable internet service. What kind of place can support a radio station but no

Re: [CentOS] live audio feed via telephone link

2009-03-30 Thread Scott Silva
on 3-30-2009 1:14 PM John R Pierce spake the following: > Les Mikesell wrote: >> It sounds like this location is just begging for wimax or some other >> suitable internet service. What kind of place can support a radio >> station but not an internet presence these days? >> > > the original p

Re: [CentOS] live audio feed via telephone link

2009-03-30 Thread JohnS
On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 22:34 +0200, Michel Daggelinckx wrote: > John R Pierce wrote: > > Les Mikesell wrote: > > > > > It sounds like this location is just begging for wimax or some other > > > suitable internet service. What kind of place can support a radio > > > station but not an interne

Re: [CentOS] live audio feed via telephone link

2009-03-30 Thread Michel Daggelinckx
John R Pierce wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: > >> It sounds like this location is just begging for wimax or some other >> suitable internet service. What kind of place can support a radio >> station but not an internet presence these days? >> >> > > the original poster indicated the FM

Re: [CentOS] live audio feed via telephone link

2009-03-30 Thread John R Pierce
Les Mikesell wrote: > It sounds like this location is just begging for wimax or some other > suitable internet service. What kind of place can support a radio > station but not an internet presence these days? > the original poster indicated the FM station was on an American Indian reservat

Re: [CentOS] live audio feed via telephone link

2009-03-30 Thread Scott Silva
on 3-30-2009 11:54 AM Akemi Yagi spake the following: > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 8:23 AM, JohnS > wrote: >> On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 08:54 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > >> Now, what about a long element yagi? Good, but not dependable. > > What's wrong with me ??? :-P > > Akemi YAGI Now your just b

Re: [CentOS] live audio feed via telephone link

2009-03-30 Thread JohnS
On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 11:54 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 8:23 AM, JohnS wrote: > > > > On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 08:54 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > > > Now, what about a long element yagi? Good, but not dependable. > > What's wrong with me ??? :-P > > Akemi YAGI - How ma

Re: [CentOS] live audio feed via telephone link

2009-03-30 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 8:23 AM, JohnS wrote: > > On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 08:54 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > Now, what about a long element yagi? Good, but not dependable. What's wrong with me ??? :-P Akemi YAGI ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.or

Re: [CentOS] live audio feed via telephone link

2009-03-30 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > JohnS wrote: >> On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 08:54 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: >> >>> The other thing, if it is Line of Sight, as suggested by previous >>> posters, is a VHF radio link. >> >> I would not bet my load on line of sight! I have seen days

Re: [CentOS] live audio feed via telephone link

2009-03-30 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:23 AM, JohnS wrote: > On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 08:54 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: >> The other thing, if it is Line of Sight, as suggested by previous >> posters, is a VHF radio link. > > I would not bet my load on line of sight! I have seen days where VHF > (tropo)will trave

Re: [CentOS] live audio feed via telephone link

2009-03-30 Thread Les Mikesell
JohnS wrote: > On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 08:54 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > >> The other thing, if it is Line of Sight, as suggested by previous >> posters, is a VHF radio link. > > > I would not bet my load on line of sight! I have seen days where VHF > (tropo)will travel 3500 miles and days wh

Re: [CentOS] live audio feed via telephone link

2009-03-30 Thread RobertH
yes i would explore & consider moving the offices too, especially if you can do what you want with a dedicated conditioned business line from old office to new office and then send out on a reliable lower cost internet link. maybe good pots if you have to. like you said, it all depends on the co

Re: [CentOS] live audio feed via telephone link

2009-03-30 Thread JohnS
On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 08:54 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > The other thing, if it is Line of Sight, as suggested by previous > posters, is a VHF radio link. I would not bet my load on line of sight! I have seen days where VHF (tropo)will travel 3500 miles and days where it would not get to my

Re: [CentOS] live audio feed via telephone link

2009-03-29 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Frank Cox wrote: > I'm looking into costs and feasibility of moving a live feed from a FM radio > station from the station to a point that's past the usable range of their > radio > signal. It's a rural location and Internet service is not available at the > stati

Re: [CentOS] live audio feed via telephone link

2009-03-26 Thread Scott Silva
on 3-26-2009 11:19 AM Frank Cox spake the following: > On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:23:31 -0700 > Scott Silva wrote: > >> If they already have a microwave link to the antenna site, it shouldn't be >> that hard to repeat that signal to another site. They could put a microwave >> repeater at the antenna s

Re: [CentOS] live audio feed via telephone link

2009-03-26 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:23:31 -0700 Scott Silva wrote: > If they already have a microwave link to the antenna site, it shouldn't be > that hard to repeat that signal to another site. They could put a microwave > repeater at the antenna site and move the receiver that is now there to the > third sit

Re: [CentOS] live audio feed via telephone link

2009-03-26 Thread Scott Silva
on 3-25-2009 5:00 PM Frank Cox spake the following: > On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:32:07 -0700 > Scott Silva wrote: > >> If the radi station has phone lines, they should be able to get something >> like >> a T1 or fractional part. Much more reliable and more bandwidth. > > I don't think it's available

Re: [CentOS] live audio feed via telephone link

2009-03-26 Thread Phil Schaffner
Frank Cox wrote: > I'm looking into costs and feasibility of moving a live feed from a FM radio > station from the station to a point that's past the usable range of their > radio > signal. It's a rural location and Internet service is not available at the > station. If the destination was closer

Re: [CentOS] live audio feed via telephone link

2009-03-26 Thread James Bensley
I would of thought that ISDN would be the perfect solution and if not settle for a standrad POTS line and use one of the folloing; http://www.tieline.com/ http://www.glensound.co.uk/GS-MPI004%20Broadcasters%20Mobile%20Phone.htm http://www.pots.audiotx.com/ http://www.sonifex.co.uk/codecs/index.

Re: [CentOS] live audio feed via telephone link

2009-03-26 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Frank Cox wrote: > > I don't think you will be able to compress a > > radio signal enough to fit over a dial line without a lot of loss. You would > > need several lines multiplexed together for a decent sounding broadcast. > > Well, that's what I'm looking into. I remember listening to streaming

Re: [CentOS] live audio feed via telephone link

2009-03-25 Thread JohnS
On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 18:31 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:14:13 -0700 > John R Pierce wrote: > > > FM quality radio remotes are usually done with ISDN lines and hardware > > encoder boxes like aTelos Zephyr.. otherwise, its juts a voice dialup > > line, analog lowfi voice. >

Re: [CentOS] live audio feed via telephone link

2009-03-25 Thread Lanny Marcus
2009/3/25 Scott Silva : > on 3-25-2009 4:21 PM Frank Cox spake the following: >> On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:15:22 -0500 >> Les Mikesell wrote: >>> Can't you find a place that has both radio reception and internet >>> service to park something like shoutcast? >> >> The immediate objective is to get the

Re: [CentOS] live audio feed via telephone link

2009-03-25 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:14:13 -0700 John R Pierce wrote: > FM quality radio remotes are usually done with ISDN lines and hardware > encoder boxes like aTelos Zephyr.. otherwise, its juts a voice dialup > line, analog lowfi voice. > > http://www.zephyr.com/ Interesting. I see that this one: h

Re: [CentOS] live audio feed via telephone link

2009-03-25 Thread John R Pierce
Frank Cox wrote: > I'm looking into costs and feasibility of moving a live feed from a FM radio > station from the station to a point that's past the usable range of their > radio > signal. It's a rural location and Internet service is not available at the > station. If the destination was closer

Re: [CentOS] live audio feed via telephone link

2009-03-25 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:32:07 -0700 Scott Silva wrote: > If the radi station has phone lines, they should be able to get something like > a T1 or fractional part. Much more reliable and more bandwidth. I don't think it's available there. Even the next-nearest town has only dial-up Internet. The

Re: [CentOS] live audio feed via telephone link

2009-03-25 Thread Scott Silva
on 3-25-2009 4:21 PM Frank Cox spake the following: > On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:15:22 -0500 > Les Mikesell wrote: > >> Can't you find a place that has both radio reception and internet >> service to park something like shoutcast? > > The immediate objective is to get the signal to somewhere that ha

Re: [CentOS] live audio feed via telephone link

2009-03-25 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:15:22 -0500 Les Mikesell wrote: > Can't you find a place that has both radio reception and internet > service to park something like shoutcast? The immediate objective is to get the signal to somewhere that has (reliable) Internet access. The ultimate objective is to stre

Re: [CentOS] live audio feed via telephone link

2009-03-25 Thread Les Mikesell
Frank Cox wrote: > I'm looking into costs and feasibility of moving a live feed from a FM radio > station from the station to a point that's past the usable range of their > radio > signal. It's a rural location and Internet service is not available at the > station. If the destination was closer

[CentOS] live audio feed via telephone link

2009-03-25 Thread Frank Cox
I'm looking into costs and feasibility of moving a live feed from a FM radio station from the station to a point that's past the usable range of their radio signal. It's a rural location and Internet service is not available at the station. If the destination was closer or their transmitter was mo