Thursday, August 30, 2007

OpenFM: Open source FM radio station


Adapted Consulting from Toronto has recently released an open source FM radio station for community radio in rural areas.
http://adaptedconsulting.com/?q=node/25

Some very cool features:
- Transmitter costs under $1200, which is one of cheapest transmitters available so far
- Dust, heat, humidity resistant
- Runs from 12V batteries charged by solar power
- Receives stereo input from a computer, which can be a Via ITX box or maybe even a Soekris
- Computer can run mixing and editing software such as Campcaster or Audacity
- Software is also provided for account and bill maintenance at the community radio station, fetching of rss feeds from the Internet, and publication of news feeds.

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