[BC] FM Modulators for Satellite Radio

[Robert Meuser]

Sounds like you just broke the law, Willie. Legal Part 15 devices do 
not work well in RF soup.

R

WFIFeng at aol.com wrote:
>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...
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