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Five FM iPod Transmitters Reviewed
An anonymous reader writes "If you want to listen to your iPod or other audio player in your car, but you don't have a cassette deck or a swanky I.C.E. system, then the answer is to transmit the music over FM to the car's radio. HEXUS.lifestyle reviews five FM transmitters for the iPod and friends, investigating how well these devices cope with broadcasting music over a 2 meter-or-so radius. Some readers will be aware that it's been less than a year since these became legal in the UK, so the majority of iPodding Brits have only recently discovered that they can tune into their MP3 collection on the road."
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This goes for the NYC area too. I'm in north Jersey, about 30mins outside of the city. If a station isn't outright being used, the signal from a neighboring station leaks into it. 92.3 can be heard on 92.1 and 92.5, for example.
As a last-ditch attempt, I found a website that shows you how to pry open a Griffin iTrip and pull the antenna (a 2 inch copper wire) outside the casing in hopes of boosting the signal output. By the time I was done with it, the iTrip looked about as good as it worked.
(I kid! and no, I don't know how to put the symbol in slashcode)
It's easy. Type "£".
Oddly enough, I've never managed to identify the car doing the transmission.
It's probably the 1997 Crown Victoria being driven by a female in the 35-54 age group demographic who's winking at you behind the limo-tint windows.