# trying to find a wired fm transmitter..
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/trying-to-find-a-wired-fm-transmitter/52946
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [August 8, 2008, 10:22am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/trying-to-find-a-wired-fm-transmitter/52946 "2008-08-08T10:22:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 19
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### Author:  [@JustinH](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JustinH)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2008, 10:22am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/trying-to-find-a-wired-fm-transmitter/52946/1 "2008-08-08T10:22:40Z")
I’m trying to hook a cheapass sansa mp3 player to my car.
The car has a factory am/fm radio with no aux jack.
Is there such thing as a wired fm transmitter that will hook up to the back of the radio (antenna)…
I can’t seem to find exactly what I’m looking for anywhere, even online.
It would be just a antenna adapter on one side, going into a modulator box, going to a male headphone cable…
If I can’t find it, I’ll just buy a 90 dollar headunit with aux in.
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### Author:  [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2008, 10:24am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/trying-to-find-a-wired-fm-transmitter/52946/2 "2008-08-08T10:24:23Z")
hmmmm… like as in a sat radio type of unit? (that attaches to an antenna?)
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### Author:  [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2008, 10:25am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/trying-to-find-a-wired-fm-transmitter/52946/3 "2008-08-08T10:25:52Z")
Circuit City. FM Modulator. It’s like $40.
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### Author:  [@JustinH](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JustinH)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2008, 10:27am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/trying-to-find-a-wired-fm-transmitter/52946/4 "2008-08-08T10:27:24Z")
> [@Dr.Stevil](#):
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> hmmmm… like as in a sat radio type of unit? (that attaches to an antenna?)
Yeah man.
I have sirius sat radio, and have the direct FM modulator. It works great for the sat, but I can’t get it to work with the mp3 player, even after adapting from minijack to standard headphone jack.
I decided to get rid of the satellite and just want to listen to podcasts in the car now…
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### Author:  [@BuickGN](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BuickGN)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2008, 10:30am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/trying-to-find-a-wired-fm-transmitter/52946/5 "2008-08-08T10:30:29Z")
does the headunit have usb?, thats how i have my sansa hooked up, works great.
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### Author:  [@JustinH](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JustinH)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2008, 10:32am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/trying-to-find-a-wired-fm-transmitter/52946/6 "2008-08-08T10:32:26Z")
> [@BuickGN](#):
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> does the headunit have usb?, thats how i have my sansa hooked up, works great.
Its a 2003 saturn, just the base radio with no cd, no aux, just am/fm…
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### Author:  [@BuickGN](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BuickGN)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2008, 10:33am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/trying-to-find-a-wired-fm-transmitter/52946/7 "2008-08-08T10:33:35Z")
ohh ok.
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### Author:  [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2008, 10:34am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/trying-to-find-a-wired-fm-transmitter/52946/8 "2008-08-08T10:34:53Z")
> [@JustinH](#):
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> Yeah man.
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> I have sirius sat radio, and have the direct FM modulator. It works great for the sat, but I can’t get it to work with the mp3 player, even after adapting from minijack to standard headphone jack.
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> I decided to get rid of the satellite and just want to listen to podcasts in the car now…
That’s because the sirius adapter is just a switch, not an FM transmitter. I.E. the headphone jack looking thing on the sirius receiver is just a wired FM transmitter.
Your ipod is sending an analog audio signal, not an FM signal.
Your options are wireless FM transmitter, wired FM Modulator, or new head unit.
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### Author:  [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2008, 10:35am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/trying-to-find-a-wired-fm-transmitter/52946/9 "2008-08-08T10:35:24Z")
let me look around justin, I know I’ve seen them before, just don’t know what they’re called
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### Author:  [@BuickGN](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BuickGN)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2008, 10:36am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/trying-to-find-a-wired-fm-transmitter/52946/10 "2008-08-08T10:36:27Z")
Yeah i would look at the wireless ones
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### Author:  [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2008, 10:36am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/trying-to-find-a-wired-fm-transmitter/52946/11 "2008-08-08T10:36:28Z")
Here, this is it.
[http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/Audiovox-FM-Modulator-for-Mobile-Video-FMM100A/sem/rpsm/oid/80974/rpem/ccd/productDetail.do](http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/Audiovox-FM-Modulator-for-Mobile-Video-FMM100A/sem/rpsm/oid/80974/rpem/ccd/productDetail.do)
If you don’t mind having a non-factory head unit you’d REALLY be better off spending another 30 or so and getting a head unit with an aux input. The sound quality will probably still suck with the modulator. Not as bad as a wireless transmitter, but still not that great.
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### Author:  [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2008, 10:38am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/trying-to-find-a-wired-fm-transmitter/52946/12 "2008-08-08T10:38:38Z")
^ yeah, that’s probably your best bet justin.
I picked up a wireless FM transmitter for my MP3 player in the buick a few years ago and even with the stereo being mere inches away, the audio SUCKED and had a shit load of interference.
I think there is a newer law restricting the power of fm transmitters via the FCC.
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### Author:  [@JustinH](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JustinH)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2008, 10:39am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/trying-to-find-a-wired-fm-transmitter/52946/13 "2008-08-08T10:39:06Z")
Hmm…
Thanks guys. Its not worth spending 40 or 50 bucks on, I was thinking 10 bucks max.
I can buy a cd head unit for 50 bucks with an aux input, or I could spend 70-80 bucks and get a cd player that plays mp3’s directly off usb sticks.
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### Author:  [@BuickGN](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BuickGN)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2008, 10:39am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/trying-to-find-a-wired-fm-transmitter/52946/14 "2008-08-08T10:39:47Z")
or move to canada where there is no FCC laws lol
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### Author:  [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2008, 11:01am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/trying-to-find-a-wired-fm-transmitter/52946/15 "2008-08-08T11:01:36Z")
Meh. I hacked my FM transmitter. Soldered on a 2 foot antenna wire so it transmits way stronger than the FCC allows. Still sucked.
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### Author:  [@BuickGN](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BuickGN)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2008, 11:02am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/trying-to-find-a-wired-fm-transmitter/52946/16 "2008-08-08T11:02:56Z")
> [@Fry](#):
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> Meh. I hacked my FM transmitter. Soldered on a 2 foot antenna wire so it transmits way stronger than the FCC allows. Still sucked.
lol your l33t
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### Author:  [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2008, 11:03am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/trying-to-find-a-wired-fm-transmitter/52946/17 "2008-08-08T11:03:48Z")
lol
[http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ\_ENUS270&q=fm+transmitter+hack](http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS270&q=fm+transmitter+hack)
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### Author:  [@BuickGN](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BuickGN)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2008, 11:07am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/trying-to-find-a-wired-fm-transmitter/52946/18 "2008-08-08T11:07:19Z")
i hacked a serial cable to work with my cable modem
lol
im not as l33t
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### Author:  [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2008, 11:08am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/trying-to-find-a-wired-fm-transmitter/52946/19 "2008-08-08T11:08:28Z")
:picard: :lol: :highfive: