Gizmo's

I recently bought this for my audio book listening pleasure.

this in conjunction with my MP3 player i can listen to my books via the cars stereo system.

was well worth the 50 bucks.

i have seen a couple inferior models, be forewarned, not all transmitters are created equal.. shop around and test the product if possible.

Well, I bought myself an audio mixer and 2 extra speakers recently.

It's not unusual, but just plain cool.

I'm just stuffing my room with junk atm. :smile:

Big fan of The Phantom Menace? Or do you just have the hots for Ewan McGregor?

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actually, i think its cool s**t that he displays all that antique electronics. :smile:
i have a very large box of LP records in my closet. i wish i had a system that could play them.

I didn't mention the electronics.

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<DIV class=quotetext>I recently bought this for my audio book listening pleasure.

this in conjunction with my MP3 player i can listen to my books via the cars stereo system.

was well worth the 50 bucks.

i have seen a couple inferior models, be forewarned, not all transmitters are created equal.. shop around and test the product if possible.

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Those are (technically) illegal over here, I think!

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/me pets crono..

i meant, he cannot be totally strange bud.. jeez

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Those are (technically) illegal over here, I think!

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you know, that would be an interesting thing to read. you wouldn't have an article or something would'ya?

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I always liked Star Wars. I considered removing the posters, but I just couldn't do it. Teh memories ...

And yeh, I love my vinyl. This picture is in fact not recent, I also got myself an old taperecorder. Really, with some magnetic tapes and s**t. I paid 5 euro's for it, and it works ! I record old my mixes on magnetic tape ! How cool is that !

It looks very much like this one:

http://aeonseven.free.fr/IMAGE%20MENU/tape%20recorder%202.jpg
I just love old stuff.

its what we used to call a "reel to reel"

nice old system, and its nice to see someone else who collects old items. in fact i still have my first box of depends.. very old type of card board you know

Lol, cool.

And about that transmitter: that's forbidden here in Belgium. They used
to sell some small things that could broadcast music from Ipod's, so
you could tune in your car radio, but that got forbidden, because it
could interfere with police communication ...

I did the test, with my mate's Ipod. We had bought the transmitter
before it became forbidden. He sat in the car with the Ipod, and I had
a portable FM radio. Everything worked fine in the car, but as soon as
I stepped out of it, and moved 1 or 2 meters away, the signal was gone.

How can it possibly interfere with police coms ? As long as they don't
build their high-tech com center within 1 or 2 meters of my car,
everything's fine. :smile:

to my knowledge, the frequencies used by the police are such ultra high, that a small transmitter such as this could hardly compare to the ones used in CB radios used by truckers, or the repeater radios used by civil contractors.

my gizmo is powerful but as with yours, it would maybe reach but a few meters.

it must be another reason. shrugs

I think I heard that they became illegal over here because it transmits a signal to the radio so in a way you are broadcasting it and it becomes a pirate radio station.

I dont know how credeble this is because I wasnt really listning to it but I do remember them saying something like that. I also wouldnt sware to that being the reason.

I live next door to the Turkish Embassy and, when i was a kid, i used to have a walkie-talkie set. I sometimes managed to intercept gendarme radio communications with it.

i wouldn't even know where or how to search for articles in your countries, but i sure would like to read some of them on how a low powered FM frequency generator can be illegal.

I have... um, NEC speakers made in 1995 :heee:

they came packaged in with a computer... they probably cost about 10 cents to make

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I think that just as our FCC puts regulations on products that say "This device complies with part 15 of the FCC rules... May not cause interference and must accept any intereference, even that which may cause undesired operation." (Check the back of your computer keyboard for this message) Oftel (The Office of Telecommunications-which is FCC's brit counterpart) has probably mandated that no device can cause intereference in certain ranges of radio transmission.

Note: Oftel's duties have been taken on my OfCom http://www.ofcom.org.uk/

You can search for regulations documents there.

I've read all that FCC stuff, but in this case i don't think it applies, cause they obviously sell the item legally in parts of the world.

secondly, a wireless network, or even a wireless telephone has much greater range. not to mention cell phones. all i assume are legal in the regions where this product is now not sold.

the bandwidth is FM. it is a moderately low frequency, one only utilized by radios, such as are in autos and homes.

there is a reason we are not considering, and i wanna know what.

also bout the thing possibly being illegal, there is an alternaitive if
it is . If you have a tape player you can put in a tape that has a
special cord that comes out the back/side "you can change it" and you
plug the cord into your Mp3 player , therefor its not a radio station ,
nothing is brodcasted , & it works ive tried it

http://www.expercom.com/product_detail.html?PRODUCT_ID=263558

you can prolly get em cheaper but here it is :wink: dunno why the itrip is so popular

EDIT: my keyboard doesnt have the fcc regs.... does that make my
keyboard illegal? i spent 2 hours looking for a keyboard with the right
springyness in the buttons it was only 10 bux too ! it better not be!

I've gone through about 3 of those things, they seem to die really fast.

MP3 and USB Flash drive is about it :sad:

In the United States the government "owns" the entire electromagnetic spectrum. The FCC is the agency that doles out bandwidth for particular uses. various frequency ranges are designated for particular things such as FM/AM radio, cell phones, CB radios, television etc. You are allowed to own relatively powerful transmitters in particular frequency ranges (cell phones and wireless internet) because the industry has contracted with the government for this chunk of bandwidth for this particular use. Any transmitter in a given frequency band which is not compliant with the regulations set fourth for how that chunk of bandwidth is to be used is illegal.

All those stickers you see on electronics are there because any electrical device is a potential transmitter. The FCC probably mandates a radiant power level, and therefore a certain amount of shielding. One of the major reasons for all that metal casing you find in most such devices is to shield the outside world form all the "noise" they make.

I can only assume that this type of legislation applies in other countries. The difference is that the FCC allows these little FM transmitters as long as they are under a certain power level. Obviously European governments are not so reasonable. It's probably as simple as a regulatory oversight. Some law says that you cannot have a transmitter in the FM band without a license, and they simply don't bother with making exceptions.

As for Gizmos... I think the coolest one I have is my GPS unit.

i bought this:

http://www.lhshop.nl/product.asp?OrderID=80126197109142005113444&ProductID=GF-166

sweet eh?