Lanny Marcus wrote:
It sounds like this location is just begging for wimax or some other suitable internet service. What kind of place can support a radio station but not an internet presence these days?
the original poster indicated the FM station was on an American Indian reservation in a very remote canyon, and the ONLY phone lines available were 2 pairs of LONG haul copper POTS lines, one currently used by the stations telephone service, the other available for modem use. They are using a microwave link to get from the station to the hilltop transmitter, but that the nearest 'real' town with a telephone CO that would support any sort of real internet service is way too far away for FM reception, even with a directional yagi.
The OP is in Saskatchewan, Canada. Hopefully, as a later poster suggested, the Canadian government has some $ available, to contribute for this project. I believe the distance is much too far for WiMax, even if it were line of sight, which is not the case here.
If the station generates any unique content that would still be interesting a day or two later (i.e. not just another DJ talking over the same music everyone else plays), perhaps they could package recorded shows as podcasts and ship them on CD/DVD/flash card to a location where they could be uploaded to a server. I almost never listen to radio or even real time streaming anymore because it is so much easier to fit podcasts into your schedule.