RE: [OT] iPod in Car?

["White, Peter" <peter.white@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not my experience, but I guess things would be worse in cities.  Ours is
currently tuned to 87.9 (the factory pre-set I think), and that's fine from
Colchester to Heathrow, via the M25.  If I turn it off the other 'stuff'
can
be heard, but there's no bleed when it's on.  Conversely, I struggle to get
Capital in several places on the M25, so I know my tuner isn't very
sensitive, but maybe having the aerial built into the screen actually
benefits the iTrip (but not normal reception).

As an aside, I think the logic behind the iTrip is very clever; using a
playlist of tuning codes to retune it is an inspired idea (if a little
fiddly), and the fact it turns on & off with the iPod (and charges from
it)
is a great idea; my iRock never did that, and had flat batteries all the
time as a consequence.

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From: Richard Malcolm-Smith [mailto:rich@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 29 March 2005 12:21
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] [OT] iPod in Car?


Tim Allen wrote:
> This seems fairly typical for the iTrip - some people find them
> excellent and others can't wait to get rid of them.

They seem to need about 0.3-0.4MHz of emptyness on either side of them to
be

come thru without the other stations bleeding ontop of them in my
experiance.

To make matters worse, that means you have to constantly re-tune them when
driving around.

I would suggest getting a pioneer head deck and making use of the aux in on
the
back of it. Some panasonics have RCA sockets for it, and I have seen some
JVCs
with a 3.5mm socket on the faceplate.


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