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STL solutions

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wgliradio

I have a client looking for an STL solution on a new CP.

Standard STL is out because the transmitter site is located on the other side of a fairly tall hill and any height achieved at the studio end is prohibitive because we'd need a 150 foot tower and local ordinances forbid it

We want to use Barix, but we cannot seem to locate DSL or T-1 at the tower site since it is in a fairly rural area. Studio is easy.

Any suggestions on what to do to get this done?
 
What about Comcast or Optimum? Are they available at the TX site? I don't know if you can get a static IP through them though, which you would want. T1 service should be available just about anywhere over copper, which isn't the best. How close is the nearest CO?

Could you double hop a spread spectrum link? I know, I must have asked more questions than you did in the first post...
 
Comcast is the local provider and they have no Cable or any service in the area....

There is T-1.... I am looking into good ol' radio lines as well
 
Yep, looks like you are pretty much limited to copper. If you need to go just one way, get the program loop. If you need bi-directional, get the T-1.
 
Ditto on the Pulsecom units, they can make a broadcast loop sound good without all the Tellabs (or whoever it is now) EQ boxes and alignment.
 
You may need to consider unlicensed IP radios like the Motorola Canopy and Proxim redline and others.

Look carefully in the Studio to TX direction to see if there are lots of businesses that may be facing that direction. If not this often works, though of course unlicensed is not particularly a good thing.

Contact me if you want the name of a company that sells a number of these types of these radios across a range of prices and know how to do the RF design for properly for audio (e.g. for low error rates not high speeds).
 
Rolf jumped in before I could.

My idea was that run a T-1 to as close as you can get to the XMTR site, whether that's a building or another tower site, and then use wireless spread-spectrum to get you to the "last mile."
 
I'm with the "last mile" approach, We have a similar situation were our studio tower height is limited but we can reach a closer FM tower and then hop from there over the air to the more remote site.

Dose this radio group have such a site they could piggy back audio on, IE a Mosley digital with two stereo channels to the first site then cheaper one channel link to the further site?
 
Is this an AM or FM station? I have been pleasantly surprised at the sound of sca sound using Marti SCA gen and Rx. If it is Am this is less critical but you can input the SCA at the studio (on an Omnia) and receive it anywhere you can receive the FM.
 
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