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Do it Yourself Radio station

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So I was thinking today about what it might take to build your own radio station. I want to do this myself, but I am no hardware engineer, I do Ruby and Python programming and honestly I haven't ever really gotten into hardware, as much as I want to. So, does anyone have any ideas for this? I want to build a set of transmitters/receivers almost like walkie talkies but functioning over radio waves on a large scale and range. I would like an operational range of at least 60 miles, perhaps piggybacking off booster towers in the area. They don't need to be battery powered or anything. In fact one could be a receiving or listening station and one could be a dedicated server computer which did the broadcasting. My only problem is I don't want to use wifi for the receiver. But I don't mind using it for the transmitter. It could also use text sent over radio almost like Ben's radio texting devices but with a much much larger operational range. Any ideas?

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  • I would get a 2-meter FM mobile unit, if I lived in an urban area, and talk with the locals.  QTH?  (Where are you located?)

  • in reply to D_Hersey

    I am around 20 miles from the nearest town, out in the middle of nowhere Oklahoma. Specifically I wanted this unit to be able to broadcast and receive signals with another unit around 20 miles away, but it would be nice to have a great big range so that I could move the unit around with me when I travel and hopefully keep in range of the other unit. The second unit, the listening station, will be located in an area that doesn't have wifi. I need to be able to broadcast a signal to this listening station. The broadcast station can use wifi or any other manner of signal as long as the listening station can pick it up, that is why I was hoping to use a radio signal because they are available almost anywhere.

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  • in reply to D_Hersey

    I am around 20 miles from the nearest town, out in the middle of nowhere Oklahoma. Specifically I wanted this unit to be able to broadcast and receive signals with another unit around 20 miles away, but it would be nice to have a great big range so that I could move the unit around with me when I travel and hopefully keep in range of the other unit. The second unit, the listening station, will be located in an area that doesn't have wifi. I need to be able to broadcast a signal to this listening station. The broadcast station can use wifi or any other manner of signal as long as the listening station can pick it up, that is why I was hoping to use a radio signal because they are available almost anywhere.

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