Transmit FM signal from laptop

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Anybody ever hear of a PCMCIA card (or other laptop-friendly device)
that can broadcast FM? I want to use my laptop to play music through
any nearby FM receiver.

thanks,
Sean

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I think what you are lookuing for is called the iRock. You can get it at
Radio Shack, and they work pretty well although they can be a bit finnicky.
They work off the earphone/audio out plug of any device--including your
computer.
"Joe" <weddy@rr.com> wrote in message
news:nebuj09k5ko2ln50r3q5eeonu3jrns1rum@4ax.com...
>I bought a device that fed my portable CD/MP3 player into the radio of my
>van.
> A mini plug into the CD player and it sent an FM carrier that the van
> radio
> received. Only worked so-so. Maybe there are better ones. I bought it at
> Best
> Buy for about $20.
>
> There is also a device that looks like an audio cassette and it slips into
> the
> cassette player. It couples the audio via magnetic waves from the faux
> cassette
> into the heads of the tape player. Again so-so performance. Again at Best
> Buy.
>
>
>
>
>
> On 8 Sep 2004 08:45:04 -0700, delphiconsultingguy@yahoo.com (Sean) wrote:
>
>>Anybody ever hear of a PCMCIA card (or other laptop-friendly device)
>>that can broadcast FM? I want to use my laptop to play music through
>>any nearby FM receiver.
>>
>>thanks,
>>Sean
>

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Hi Sean,

If you decide to go with the iRock, you might want to try the mod at;

~ http://www.vfaq.com/iRock/

Ciao . . . C.Joseph

That which a man buys too cheaply . . .
~ He esteems too lightly



Old Time Harold wrote:

| I think what you are lookuing for is called the iRock. You can get
| it at Radio Shack, and they work pretty well although they can be a
| bit finnicky. They work off the earphone/audio out plug of any
| device--including your computer. "Joe" <weddy@rr.com> wrote in
| message news:nebuj09k5ko2ln50r3q5eeonu3jrns1rum@4ax.com...
|
|> I bought a device that fed my portable CD/MP3 player into the
|> radio of my van. A mini plug into the CD player and it sent an FM
|> carrier that the van radio received. Only worked so-so. Maybe
|> there are better ones. I bought it at Best Buy for about $20.
|>
|> There is also a device that looks like an audio cassette and it
|> slips into the cassette player. It couples the audio via magnetic
|> waves from the faux cassette into the heads of the tape player.
|> Again so-so performance. Again at Best Buy.
|>
|>
|>
|>
|>
|> On 8 Sep 2004 08:45:04 -0700, delphiconsultingguy@yahoo.com
|> (Sean) wrote:
|>
|>> Anybody ever hear of a PCMCIA card (or other laptop-friendly
|>> device) that can broadcast FM? I want to use my laptop to play
|>> music through any nearby FM receiver.
|>>
|>> thanks, Sean
|
|
|
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C.Joseph Drayton wrote:

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> Hi Sean,
>
> If you decide to go with the iRock, you might want to try the mod at;
>
> ~ http://www.vfaq.com/iRock/
>
> Ciao . . . C.Joseph

Cute mod, I may have to try that. Of course, I would look for a smaller
jack. Also, since I use NiMH rechargeables in my iRock, I'd skip the
disconnect feature and let the DC jack recharge the batteries in-circuit.
--
-- Howard Chu
Chief Architect, Symas Corp. Director, Highland Sun
http://www.symas.com http://highlandsun.com/hyc
Symas: Premier OpenSource Development and Support

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The "TuneCase II" from Belkin is supposed to be one of the best of these
types of devices.


"Old Time Harold" <harold_maurerNOSPAM@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:7oqdnQR_m_YB06LcRVn-vg@comcast.com...
>I think what you are lookuing for is called the iRock. You can get it at
>Radio Shack, and they work pretty well although they can be a bit finnicky.
>They work off the earphone/audio out plug of any device--including your
>computer.
> "Joe" <weddy@rr.com> wrote in message
> news:nebuj09k5ko2ln50r3q5eeonu3jrns1rum@4ax.com...
>>I bought a device that fed my portable CD/MP3 player into the radio of my
>>van.
>> A mini plug into the CD player and it sent an FM carrier that the van
>> radio
>> received. Only worked so-so. Maybe there are better ones. I bought it at
>> Best
>> Buy for about $20.
>>
>> There is also a device that looks like an audio cassette and it slips
>> into the
>> cassette player. It couples the audio via magnetic waves from the faux
>> cassette
>> into the heads of the tape player. Again so-so performance. Again at Best
>> Buy.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 8 Sep 2004 08:45:04 -0700, delphiconsultingguy@yahoo.com (Sean) wrote:
>>
>>>Anybody ever hear of a PCMCIA card (or other laptop-friendly device)
>>>that can broadcast FM? I want to use my laptop to play music through
>>>any nearby FM receiver.
>>>
>>>thanks,
>>>Sean
>>
>
>