Got an FM transmitter for the iPod from a filling station yesterday. Much larger than the iTrip and it connects via the headphone socket so that I can still charge the iPod when driving.

Dunno how many watts its chucking out but it’s gotta be more than the iTrip as it has a supposed range of up to 30 feet and the iPod plays back much louder. This thing cannot be legal.

Lord knows how much aggravation you could create with the thing if you were stuck in a traffic jam and you could tune it to one of the popular BBC radio station frequencies.

It runs on batteries or from the car lighter socket and has a switch on the front to change to one of the four frequencies it has been hard wired to use.

Tested it again at home on the stereo and it was much louder there too. But when using it this morning the sound quality was very distorted. Switched back to the iTrip and the sound was fine.

Virtually a no-name brand and it was only £6.99 which is about 25% of the cost of the iTrip. Will continue to check this distortion problem before probably chucking it in the ‘cheap and not tested very well junk’ pile, along with an unpowered USB desktop hub, a DAB radio, a couple of wireless mice and a bluetooth dongle that had the Chinese instructions translated into English so hellishly there was never any chance of getting that to work.

Quote of the day

‘It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious’ Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)