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Dean 
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 Posted: September 21 2010 at 11:31 |
Do you not have an internet search function where you live Ian? 
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Snow Dog
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Posted: September 21 2010 at 11:20 |
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Why do I not know what you guys are talking about? I must be naive.
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Dean
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Posted: September 21 2010 at 10:36 |
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^ for the benefit of people living on the wrong side of the pond, Heath Robinson is like Rube Goldberg (or those living on the wrong side of the ditch, Storm Petersen)
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Easy Livin
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Posted: September 21 2010 at 10:30 |
I used one on my previous car instead of the cassette player without any problems. As long as you have a range of frequecies to choose from to avoid interference, you should get on fine. Mine cost pennies from an Amazon market place site.
The transmitter came with a USB connector for the power, so I wired it into a 2 way USB adapter (Poundland), plugged into the cigar lighter socket thus powering the MP3 player from the USB too. NO batteries!!
All sounds very complicated and it did look rather Heath Robinson, but it worked well.
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Padraic
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Posted: September 21 2010 at 09:43 |
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I've only tried one, but it absolutely sucked. Never again.
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Snow Dog
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Posted: September 21 2010 at 06:09 |
I don't even understand any of this.
I just turn on my radio and listen to stations.
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: September 21 2010 at 06:06 |
 Tony R wrote:
You can get a car CD/radio with MP3/iPod/USB connection for the cost of 2 transmitters and the gazillion batteries they use up. |
Priceless advice.  I have yet to get a transmitter that worked well. Even if you can find a reasonably good frequency to use, I believe there are government imposed signal strength limitations, which basically make for a result like listening to a too distant radio station. 
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Tony R
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Posted: September 21 2010 at 03:10 |
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You can get a car CD/radio with MP3/iPod/USB connection for the cost of 2 transmitters and the gazillion batteries they use up.
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Dean
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Posted: September 21 2010 at 02:12 |
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I've used them and they work fine as long as you remember where your car aerial is and that your car is a steel-box that acts like a Faraday cage. The only downside to them is they eat batteries and the ones I had would drain their batteries even when switched off.
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Catcher10
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Posted: September 21 2010 at 01:14 |
Yeah I've tried a few with horrible results. Seems if you are in a decently populated area with good FM radio coverage the FM transmitters are not good. The freq you tune into is probably too close to a broadcasting station which severely skews the signal and at best sounds like bad AM. I was in the same boat...as my Grand Prix stock system had no Aux input....So I bit the bullet and replaced my system with a Sony Xplod with a Aux input. I don't regret one bit......90% of the time my Zune mp3 player is plugged in playing all the tunes.....I don't listen to any FM radio anymore...Other than NPR news.
Depending on your stock system, you might be able to find an integration module...check out soundgate.com first before you replace your system.
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Henry Plainview
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Posted: September 21 2010 at 00:43 |
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With classes this fall I have about an hour and a half commute in the morning because of traffic, and the classical station just isn't cutting it anymore. But I've used ones that I didn't own before, and I was extremely not impressed with the sound quality, although they weren't all that expensive. My car is 10 years old and doesn't have a line-in jack, and it seems like the cassette adapters are even worse than the FM transmitters. Are there any solutions? Should I just buy music on cassette? There are still new albums being released on cassette, after all!
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if you own a sodastream i hate you
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Are any FM transmitters actually good?
