[BC] FM Modulators for Satellite Radio

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In a message dated 06/25/2006 3:45:47 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
ehrenberg at fastmail.fm writes:

> At this point, my FM modualted Sirius RX is almost totally useless in
>  the LA Basin.  
>  I am just going to have to hard wire the sucker! 

I bought one for my wife's MP3 player. If it's range was 3', that would be 
generous. (It's antenna was inside the little 6" audio input cable.) The only 
way to get a listenable signal on the car radio was to hold the thing up by the 
windshield, near the antenna. Not good. I ended up taking it apart and adding 
the equivalent of a wire dipole to it, 18" on each side. That increased the 
range to about 10'. Now, it can sit on the seat of the car, and give an almost 
perfect signal with the wire antenna stretched out.

Inside the house, it faded to the point of unlistenablility at about 4-5 feet 
from the stereo (which has a pair of 18" wires for it's antenna, as well). 
Once I added the wires to the little transmitter, that improved to about 10-12' 
before it started to break up. BTW, I get at least 2-3 dozen stations on my 
stereo with just those little wires for an antenna. Talk about RF soup!

Willie...