Granted, either condition is POSSIBLE, and for that matter, it’s POSSIBLE for both to happen. Seriously, what are the odds on my iTrip, overpowered or not, really impacting their choice of music? At least two conditions (there are probably more, but screw it I don’t want to think any more than is absolutely necessary.)ġ) They’re within the zone-o-control emitted by my iTrip, whatever that radius happens to be.Ģ) They happen to be listening to the same frequency that my iTrip is tuned to.
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Or a mini-van full of Christians on their way to Prayerfest 06. Is this really that big of a threat? I can’t imagine that if I’m zipping down the road in my “Road Warrior-esque” 1988 Chevy Blazer and listening to obnoxious mid-90s Norwegian death metal, that it’s really going to have that much of an effect on the radio playing in the 2006 Toyota Prius driven by “Granola Sue” as she’s listening to NPR. Will that pose just as significant a threat? In fact, as the article notes, when the modulators are set to the proper levels, it’s possible that the reverse happens: and NPR signals will break into people listening to Howard Stern on their satellite radio. There’s nothing wrong with recalling the devices if they do exceed the set specs, but it’s hardly such a threat. It may be true that these devices exceed the set limits, but it still seems to take things a bit far to claim that “these modulators pose a significant threat” to public radio. A separate study by the National Association of Broadcasters also found that more than 75% of the device exceed their power limits.
They conducted their own study, which found that 40% of the devices exceed FCC limits and are demanding that the FCC recall the devices. Apparently, NPR isn’t happy with the FCC’s efforts so far. This seemed a little silly, but at the same time, the FCC began an investigation into reports that the modulators from XM and Sirius went beyond specifications. In order to make it clear what a problem this was, they talked of things like Howard Stern and gangsta rap breaking into Christian radio stations. Basically, as someone drove by with one of those modulators, the broadcast would break into other passing cars’ radios. Earlier this year however, a bunch of radio stations in the US started complaining that these FM modulators from both things like the iTrip and that were popular with satellite radio systems were causing problems on the road. Fri, Oct 27th 2006 07:18pm - Mike MasnickĪ few years back, the UK decided to ban certain FM modulators such as the “iTrip” device that would let you broadcast your iPod a short distance at a low frequency on your radio, claiming that it was breaking the law that banned “pirate” radio stations - even if it could only broadcast a few feet.
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