help with fm brodcasting from sat radio

[trinibob]

Ok everyone

Hers the challenge I have for you if you chouse to except.

As most of you know I change and repair Big tires on the road and in the field for a living.

I am a Sirius user and use a set of Peltor alert M2rx7 for ear protection that also contains an fm radio.

My old sportster radio worked great for this application the built in fm modulator pumped out enough range I could work 20 yards around my truck with no problem hearing the Sirius playing .

But this old Sirius unit was getting beat up and the buttons 1&2 stopped working so the wife got me a new one for Christmas. This is where the problem starts.

The new radios from Sirius have the fm modulators strength cut in half or more due to the fcc (so Sirius says ) so that you don’t bleed your signal to other peoples cars in traffic.

Well now I can’t use my new radio in the manner I Need to and im running out of ideas on how to boost the broadcast strength of the now weak fm modulator!

Any ideas or cheep mods for this fix would be greatly helpful.

Thanks all

 

[water-dog]

Had the same issue when upgrading to the Sportster3. For the house I made a 3 foot or so antenna from a wire and a 2.5mm (mono) phono plug. In the cars we use one of these. Transmits about a 1/2 mile. ebay item #120208626152. Works great on the ipod too.

dog

 

[uctofeej]

If your radio has a headphone jack, look at this thread on FM transmitters for a gps unit. You might be able to bypass your weak transmitter.