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Subject:Re: A little traveling music ... Siriusly
From:Aleksandr Milewski
Date:Mon, 14 Mar 2005 23:20:03 -0800

Mike Collum wrote:
> The "Transmit over FM" receiver worked great in Maine and many other
> places ... BUT ... there were areas where we had interference on all 10
> of the FM frequency choices.  For that reason, I found it to be a real
> pain at times.

Get one of the FM relay boxes. They're about $20, and disconnect the
antenna from the head unit when the Sirius tuner is transmitting.

It basically eliminates the interference problem.

The other thing that is less than obvious is that you'll often get
better results setting the transmitter to the same frequency as a weaker
station, rather than trying to pick a hole between stronger stations.
(There's a long explanation of the FM capture effect that I'll skip)

And finally, if you don't have a trunk-mounted changer, and your head
unit supports one, there are ways to make a Sirius tuner look like a
changer to the head unit.

-Zandr

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