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?
