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Hi, I want to suggest you to look in open source solutions too. There are basically 4 ingredients that, brought together will achive what you are looking for.

1. A server to recieve and send all video through. Nginx together with the nginx-rtmp module is a great video streaming server. Accepts rtmp streams and distribues it in both rtmp and hls.

2. An app to streams a camera's Video and maybe audio to a central point. Arutcam is a great android app to achieve that.

3. A program to mix all the video and audio streams together. OBS Studio is the best tool for that out there.

4. A streaming service that handles distribution of the video to all of your viewers in the world wide web.

Setting up tne nginx server on a linux box is quite easy. This tutorial mentions all the necessary steps. The server is lightweight enough to be run on a raspberry pi for example. You should have this server in a location with good internet connectivity, (no wireless!) and an enabled portforwarding to port 1935.

Next step is to make your mobile devices stream to this server. You can specify an output url and stream key in Arutcam. these should be set to the public IP of your nginx server and for example "cam1" and "cam2". All camera streams can then be added to OBS Studio as media sources. You'll mix your final stream in obs to project in the final location and to broadcast to the internet.

All this is done without investing one cent in software. You'll only need a bit of time to cobble everything together and test.

This description is quite brief and doesn't cover all settings in detail, but I can try to help if specific questions arise.

Hello, are you able to manually set the rtmp url in your cameras or are they only able to stream to ustream/livestream? I'd look into nginx-rtmp. You can set up your own streaming server on your PC with that and are independent of possibly flaky internet connection when streaming directly to ustream.

I'm doing something similar to broadcast workshops from my smartphone. I am using Arutcam from my android phone and a nginx rtmp streaming server on my laptop to achieve what you are looking for. More info about both of them can be found on the developer's blog.

But covering 14000 sq feet with one wireless AP can become a hassle. Try to mount your AP as central and as high as possible and run ethernet from there to your laptop.

This would be the low cost approach to your idea. There are other possibilities when you start looking in the RC FPV world. There are Video transmitters and recievers in the 5.8GHz range that input and output HDMI, so that you can connect any camera and capture card for your computer to them. If you have enough money at your disposal you can also look at professional Teradek transmitters and recievers..