HELP! iphone FM transmitter/charger for road trip

[marksniles]

Hi everyone! It's a little over a month until we start our yearly road trip journey for WDW. This year we will be using the wife's car which does not have a connection for the iphone. I'm looking for suggestions on a really good FM transmitter/charger for the iphone. I do need the charger also because the trip is a little over 22 hours long. I have one but it doesn't work that well. I get a lot of static on the channel and on long road trips I have to change the channel often as new radio channels broadcasting on the same frequency often causes the iphone transmission to become very staticy. Any suggestions you may have would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Mark

 

[ChiSoxKeith]

Yuck. I've had three of them and none of them worked very well. Lots of static. I would up biting the bullet and put a new stereo in the car to get that functionality.

 

[bdoyledimou]

does your ipod have bluetooth? I use a motorocker 57 .. it's amazing.

otherwise, i agree that the offerings for the standard ipod are pretty low powered and unless they are touching your antenna, it's staticty.

 

[Tara]

I have a Belkin and rarely experience static.

 

[vicki_c]

We have owned many Griffin iTrips over the last 6 years, each new model gets worse. They keep bumping down the output that they are allowed to broadcast due to FCC regulations. None of the old ones charge an iPhone, none of the newer models work well.

So we just switched to a Satechi bluetooth transmitter -- it works fantastic! So if you have an iPhone (does an iPod touch have Bluetooth?), you should look into that, it was around $65. This would be my #1 recommendation. Here's a link to it with a video showing its installation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZFO4NCzGeE

If you do have to stick with the typical plug in transmitter - one of the Griffin models allows you to do a backdoor to set your frequency on 87.9 (factory settings only let it go down to 88.1) and you will get a much clearer signal on 87.9 and probably will never have to change it at all on your trip.

(Unfortunately, I have not figured out any way to get the Satechi to 87.9 - if anyone else knows, please send me a PM!). But it still works well on 88.1.

 

[myDISboards]

Hi everyone! It's a little over a month until we start our yearly road trip journey for WDW. This year we will be using the wife's car which does not have a connection for the iphone. I'm looking for suggestions on a really good FM transmitter/charger for the iphone. I do need the charger also because the trip is a little over 22 hours long. I have one but it doesn't work that well. I get a lot of static on the channel and on long road trips I have to change the channel often as new radio channels broadcasting on the same frequency often causes the iphone transmission to become very staticy. Any suggestions you may have would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Mark

Have you thought of USA Spec iPhone/iPod Interface? We self-installed in less than 2 hours with some basic understandings of electrical such as disconnect the battery, get to the back of the radio, plug the cables from USA Spec iPhone/iPod Interface to the back of the radio...that's about it.

The steering wheel controls if factory-equipped and sound are awesome! (CD quality sound, not FM modulated)...steering wheel controls -OR- our iPhone 3G controls with no problems.

Sample picture and more info at http://www.usaspec.com/