Retro Radio CD player

JUST LOOKED THROUGH 78 ISSUSES OF PC CANNOT FIND BUT I HAVE EMAIL MY MATE AND HE STILL AS THE BOX AND BILL OF SALE AND WILL GET BACK TO ME
 
TwinPlenum3500S said:
USA ... any good for UK cars?
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Well the voltage is the same.... :shock:

Frequency bands

US AM 540-1700 kHz @ 10kHz spacing
UK MW 530 to 1610 kHz @ 9kHz spacing

FM is I think 87.5 - 108.0MHz in both countries
 
Tell you what would be a really cool invention, in fact I think I've just invented it.... A cassette mp3 player, not one of those plug in adaptor jobs, but an actual mp3 player that is the same size and shape as a cassette, has built in battery and the little device that sends the signal out to the tape head, it uses the tape drive wheel to work out what to do, so when you press play on the tape deck it starts playing, when you press fast forward it skips tracks etc... Could have normal buttons and a headphone socket for use outside the car.

What do you think ???

The other thing though is have you tried the FM transmitters ?, plug into your mp3 player and it transmits the signal on a standard FM radio band so you can pick it up on your old car stereo, I've got one and they work really well, sometimes tune all the radios in the house into the signal and get the same tune all round the house.
 
webmaster said:
The other thing though is have you tried the FM transmitters ?, plug into your mp3 player and it transmits the signal on a standard FM radio band so you can pick it up on your old car stereo, I've got one and they work really well, sometimes tune all the radios in the house into the signal and get the same tune all round the house.
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I have been looking at one of them.

£2.79 on ebay.

I have an MP3 player someone sent me free of charge, so I will download all my Floyd stuff onto that and give it a go. 8)

Excellent
 
Never mind. Those sort of tape head adaptors were used with CD Walkmen and while they worked , they were hardly Hi - Fi

Do those devices that transmit to a spare FM frequency work well , as the aerial is outside the car and screened from the transmitter by the metal bodywork ?

You could once buy CD multichangers that put an FM signal into the aerial lead via a "modulator " Couldn't have been much good as they were known as mudulators
 
FM transmitter works well in my 820, however the 800 uses the rear screen demister element as the aerial so no screening problems.
 
webmaster said:
FM transmitter works well in my 820, however the 800 uses the rear screen demister element as the aerial so no screening problems.
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I have just received one of these from ebay (you know this is going to end badly) :roll:

I have an MP3 player because I bought something from Viking once and they gave me one for nowt.

So, I have downloaded all of my Pink Floyd onto this device, rigged it into the transmitter and set it going.

I set the transmitter to transmit at 106.9, the lowest of the frequencies, and turned on the radio.

The radio only goes up to 104.

:?
 
FM band is usually from somewhere in the 80's to just over 100, I'm suprised it doesn't go any lower than 106 !, mine goes right down and can happily transmit over radio 2 !
 
webmaster said:
FM band is usually from somewhere in the 80's to just over 100, I'm suprised it doesn't go any lower than 106 !, mine goes right down and can happily transmit over radio 2 !
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And I paid £1.98 for it!

That did include delivery from Hong Kong though 8)
 
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