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General Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: padishah_emperor on February 26, 2005, 07:29:32 am

Title: Fm Radio On The Z
Post by: padishah_emperor on February 26, 2005, 07:29:32 am

I've seen a few posts about FM radio on the Z, usually focussed around CF based tuners which are ok if you have a free CF port and are able to get/write software to drive it. I'm not aware of any such software myself though I could be wrong.

There is another way which some may know of or use and some may not have known or thought about: an inline FM tuner.    A tuner which connects to the headphone jack of your PDA (regardless of which type):

Here are a couple I've found - these have their own integrated heaphones, I've also seen one which has a jack for your own headphones - which I'm looking for.

FYI:

http://shop.ipodworld.co.uk/iPodWorldSite/...phones/DR01.htm (http://shop.ipodworld.co.uk/iPodWorldSite/product/iPodMini_Headphones/DR01.htm)

http://www.advancedmp3players.co.uk/shop/p...233&usersessid= (http://www.advancedmp3players.co.uk/shop/product_info.php?cPath=7&products_id=233&usersessid=)

I hope this is of some help. FYI IMHO YMMV ;-)

-Francis

Title: Fm Radio On The Z
Post by: ZDevil on March 05, 2005, 06:29:23 am

I got one almost identical to the first model.  Well, actually it IS a standalone ordinary FM radio, except that there's an additional plug for 3.5mm jack.  The sound quality is just minimal.  After all, I still don't quite understand why bother to turn Z into such a giant FM radio, if a FM radio has now become as small as a finger tip?  Just my 2 zents.  
 

Title: Fm Radio On The Z
Post by: padishah_emperor on March 05, 2005, 07:03:32 am

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I got one almost identical to the first model.  Well, actually it IS a standalone ordinary FM radio, except that there's an additional plug for 3.5mm jack.  The sound quality is just minimal.  After all, I still don't quite understand why bother to turn Z into such a giant FM radio, if a FM radio has now become as small as a finger tip?  Just my 2 zents. 
 
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Indeed  

In fact, I noticed the first one I referred to was £25 at first, now it's £19, still too much for an FM tuner, especially as I've seen exactly the same ones on eBay for a few pounds.  

Title: Fm Radio On The Z
Post by: lardman on March 05, 2005, 08:32:11 am

If it were possible to obtain non-standard channels and receive data over them, then an FM tuner might have a use:

http://www.msndirect.com/what/default.htm (http://www.msndirect.com/what/default.htm)


Si