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Right out of the box the ac adapter did not work. I resorted to batteries, did the suggested adjustment to the unit (turned the pot 100% clockwise) found an empty freq on my radio and tuned the transmitter to same. Reciever is 20+/- from transmitter through an open door, lots of background hiss, right channel barely there at all. Tried different freq same result. moved antenna on both units with little change. For the money this is not a satisfactory product. I am going back to the wireless speakers that this unit was intended to replace, they work fine with far greater range and little if any hiss. This product is being returned.

I am an SF Bay Area expat living in the heart of NYC. I miss the scenery. I miss the weather. I miss my Giants! I signed up for pro baseball audio on the internet and got one of these slick FM transmitters. I now listen to Giants' games on the same bedside radio I used back home!

Finding an unused station in Manhattan was tough, but I found one that works well (94.3) with the help of NC's kludge. If I can use this in NYC you can't tell me it won't work well in your home town. Great job C. Crane Co.

You can just peel the product label a little (the corner nearest to the antenna) and expose three holes in the back cover. You can rotate the preset pot fully clockwise through one of these holes in less than a minute!

For the past several months I have been using a "plug in the cigarette lighter" modulator with fair results. As expected, interferance from adjacent stations occurred frequently with hiss, and sometimes an overpowering audio signal. Enter the C.CRANE FM MODULATOR.

With this device I am able to "transmit" a clean, clear, fully stereo signal 50' from wherever I place the modulator. In the vehicle, the device has enough output to overcome fair to moderately stations! In other words, the output signal is significant compared to cigarette lighter systems and the fidelity is superior to the cassette adapter systems I have tried as well.

I can drive a distance of 100 miles without havung to tweek the frequencies...and that is in New Jersey, heavily populated with lots of RF sources.

By the by the unit is much smaller than the picture seems to show. Figure 3 1/2" x 3 1/4"... easy to tuck out of sight.

I am impressed with the performance of this transmitter. So much consumer radio equipment is designed for low cost rather than performance. This product has the feel of older low-volume products from the days when you could buy products as a kit or assembled.

The only problem I have is that some of the low-cost FM radios I have around the house experience intermod from strong transmitters on towers near where I live. When I test it using a receiver with good dynamic range, I can receive a solid signal several doors down in my apartment building.

I had good results with tweaking the pot as NC suggested. How fortunate that that layout guy just so happened to place that pot in a location where you can tweak it so easily, just lucky, I guess.

Increasing the antenna length helped too. I wonder why they didn't use a longer whip antenna or do some matching on the board to accommodate a shorter antenna. I'm glad they didn't match to a shorter antenna on the board, though, because it leaves open the option of a longer antenna.