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2009-12-17 , 18:45
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#61
Originally Posted by Alex Atkin UK View Post
Of course that would be an ILLEGAL hospital radio, which is why the transmitter is so low powered.
Must you spoil the dream?

We could stream it over the internet but there's no computers in patient areas... I just fancied inviting inpatients to pop in and send a message... I work in a psychiatric unit so you wouldn't want to broadcast any wider than the unit.

We have an entire hospital recording/podcasting suite at our other unit. I just fancied allowing our folks to play with it while they're detained.
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go1dfish is offline go1dfish
2009-12-17 , 18:59
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#62
I used the n900's FM transmitter to stream ccMixter podcasts over edge/3g on a trip from San Diego to LA monday.

Was a rental car (wagon-ish) with the antenna on the back roof.

Was only able to get good FM signal with the device clipped to the headliner in the front (in my old e51 case), or held up by passengers in the back.

Quality was OK most of the trip, most of the issues we ran into were bandwidth related on the cell side in spotty areas. We did have to change the FM frequency once along the way after getting overpowered by a LA station.

Overall it worked fairly well. I was disappointed however that the FM transmitter will not function while USB is plugged in (a yellow message alert appears notifying you of such)
 
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2009-12-17 , 19:16
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#63
Transmitter works very well in a Jeep Wrangler.
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2009-12-17 , 19:28
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#64
Originally Posted by RevdKathy View Post
I found myself wondering about the range - ideally one would want if wide enough to at least cover the whole house, and whether one could use the microphone with it.
Whole house? For me, it does not even reach half way across a small room. I'm very disappointed.
 

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Laughingstok is offline Laughingstok
2009-12-17 , 19:39
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#65
Originally Posted by Dak View Post
Thank you, Derek Zoolander.

I must be missing something.
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2009-12-17 , 19:48
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#66
I just tried this in my station VW and the transmitter is the best I have seen in ages. Sound is good, and range is perfect for my car.

http://www.elmotaheda.com/


Originally Posted by sachin007 View Post
I know that the n900 has the fm transmitter and i would love to stream my music to my car stereo without all those clunky wires.

I have read somewhere that the fm transmitter on the n97 is actually useless since the output is very weak and there is a lot of noise compared to a stand alone fm transmitter.

Is this true?

Thanks
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Alex Atkin UK is offline Alex Atkin UK
2009-12-17 , 21:11
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#67
Its good when it works, but due to law its very low powered.
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2009-12-26 , 19:55
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#68
Tried using mine yesterday; nearly useless in my vehicles, where I live. Being in a large urban enviornment there are very, very few freq. available and those are usually subject to interference from drift.

Is it possible to increase the output power via software?
 
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2009-12-26 , 22:22
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#69
Just tried mine for the first time, front passenger seat of a 2010 Toyota Corolla. Sound quality was not so great and it got lots of static as I moved it around about a 1 cubic foot area (above my lap). The FM transmitter just simply stopped working after a few minutes (sound started coming out of N900's speakers), and when I went back into the settings it still had the FM transmitter enabled, and still had the icon. I tried disabling and then re-enabling it, at which point the whole music player got really slow, nearly unresponsive, and FM transmitter still didn't work.
 
Hunter is offline Hunter
2009-12-26 , 22:31
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#70
Very disappointed that the FM transmitter will not work when plugged into a car charger. When using it drains the battery.

Why would they disable the usb connection when using the transmitter?
 
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