I want to make my station go live in the internet

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kesh

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Hey everyone..

I hope this is the right forum. I have a friend who has a FM radio station. He asked me if I can connect his station to the internet so a user can browse his website and listen to his live station.

Since I am on another field, more like in online marketing. I want to help him out. So can you guys please let me know what do I need to make this happen, can I do this for free?, do I need a hosting space? Any money involved?

I appreciate you help.

Thanks a lot
Kesh.
 
Hi Kesh,

Welcome to the forums.

You can indeed stream your station on the internet alongside the FM broadcast. As long as you have a computer (with a soundcard) that is connected to the internet in your studio that you can feed the audio signal into, then you are all good to go. 8)

For this you are going to require server hosting to stream the audio to your listeners. A radio server requires large amounts of bandwidth to cater for all the connecting listeners. This is where our services come in, as we can cater for the large amounts of bandwidth that is used whilst providing a control panel interface for you to control and manage your station. Some more information on our server hosting and the pricing for this can be found here: Internet Radio Servers

We also have a beginners guide in our forums which will provide you with some information on getting started with Internet Radio. This can be found here: http://forum.internet-radio.com/guides/12168-beginners-guide-internet-radio.html

Please just let us know if you have any more questions or if there is anything else that we can assist you with at all. :)
 
Support said:
Hi Kesh,

Welcome to the forums.

You can indeed stream your station on the internet alongside the FM broadcast. As long as you have a computer (with a soundcard) that is connected to the internet in your studio that you can feed the audio signal into, then you are all good to go. 8)
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or you can stream from a different location via rebroadcasting the existing Band II (FM) signal

this is exactly what we do at our local community radio station, for streaming and recording station output. (the TX is in fact elsewhere 1.5 km away). This has the advantage that it makes use of any soundprocessing and limiter to the FM transmitter so your levels are more constant.

Use the best quality radio receiver you can get (the Japanese hi fi separates ones are good for this) - and most importantly good antenna within the main Band II transmitter coverage area. You might need to put on up on the roof or at the very least have your receiver situated at a high point upstairs and as far away from computers as possible, as these make noise on the FM band because of how their circuits operate (if you bring a transistor radio close to a computer you can hear for yourself how bad this is!)

Use also a decent soundcard and make sure the audio levels are correct, and at least 128k bitrate MP3 for your stream (192k is slightly better even though FM radio filters off at 15 KHz anyway)
 
General Lighting said:
or you can stream from a different location via rebroadcasting the existing Band II (FM) signal

this is exactly what we do at our local community radio station, for streaming and recording station output. (the TX is in fact elsewhere 1.5 km away). This has the advantage that it makes use of any soundprocessing and limiter to the FM transmitter so your levels are more constant.
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Thanks for the input. That's a good approach to it, especially with using any sound processing and limiting. :nerd::yes:
 
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