Scosche tuneFREQ FMRDS Wireless FM Transmitter
Apple’s iPod and iPhone are great devices for storing and listening to your favorite music. Apart from their portability, they can be connected to numerous other gadgets that enhance your music experience.
Improved earphones, portable speakers, or even big speakers with iPod or iPhone docking stations vastly enrich sound from these small MP3 players. They can also be linked via cables, USB ports, Bluetooth, or radio signals with other devices to further expand their capabilities.
One of these gadgets is the Scosche tuneFREQ FMRDS Wireless FM Transmitter. This is a small electronic gadget that connects with an iPod or iPhone. It propagates an electromagnetic FM radio signal, transmitting music from your Apple MP3 players to the airwaves. It is compatible with the iPhone 3GS, fifth generation iPod Nano, second generation iPod Touch, and iPod Classic. If your radio is tuned to the frequency of the tuneFREQ FMRDS transmitter broadcast, it will air the songs from your player.
The transmitter has a frequency range starting at 88.1 up to 107.9. This gives you plenty of possible unused frequencies for your private broadcast. As it does not have its own battery, the transmitter draws power from the iPod or iPhone. Its current draw is only 30mA so that it will not unduly hasten the draining of the iPod’s battery. Nonetheless, it has a mini-USB port to which a cable can be attached to charge the iPod.
Operation of the Scosche tuneFREQ FMRDS Wireless FM Transmitter is simple. There are only three buttons on the transmitter. One is for manually tuning up, a second for tuning down, and a third, located in between the two, is for auto scanning. An LED display above the buttons indicates the frequency. Once you find a free FM frequency, it starts transmitting. All you need to do then is to tune your FM radio to that same frequency to start listening to your iPod or iPhone music on the radio’s audio system.