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October 28, 2006
NPR vs personal radio
NPR vs personal radio: If your car's stereo system can catch your iPod or satellite signal, then it's using an FM modulator to send a small radio signal to your car's radio. The National Public Radio chain is complaining that these devices might be too powerful and leak into other cars tuned to that frequency, disrupting NPR's programming, if they're on a similar frequency. NPR says it wants all FM modulators recalled. A simpler fix is to just change the device's default transmission frequency if there's a brief conflict. Such radio interference seems less significant than cars with loud bass-heavy speakers interfering with anyone in hearing distance. Maybe NPR's really concerned about something else here. (If that top Baltimore Sun link won't let you through, try linking through Google News... more at Poynter.org.)
Posted by JohnDowdell at October 28, 2006 07:52 PM
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Currently those transmitters are legal to buy, but illegal to use here in the UK for exactly this reason. However, I saw something the other day that basically said that the government are close to giving in to public demand and allowing people to use them in their cars...
It has got to be better and safer than people driving with their iPods plugged into their heads!
Posted by: Stephen Moretti at October 29, 2006 08:22 AM