How to: Boost the signal of a cheap ipod fm transmitter

[custexplorer]

Anyone who has an ipod fm transmitter, knows the amount of time it takes to find a blank station, and find the exact place in your car to place it, to achieve a good signal. Some work only when being held because they use your body as an antenna, while you don't make the best conductor, your a hell of a lot better than air. So, the basic concept is to make your antenna as strong as possible, more powerful than a radio station, even if its nearby, so that you can avoid the static and just listen to your music. All you need is a hot glue gun / super glue, a very small nail, and any type of wire. I used an old phone charger, but you can use whatever is handy. (stereo wire, power wire, a chain of paperclips if your really desperate.

Ok so enough talk lets get started. Pop apart your transmitter, and it should look something like this.

Front.

Back.

Now your going to need to locate your antenna. It will be the only wire on the device, that is only connected at one end.

Here is my antenna folded up:

Strip the antenna and either hot glue or solder it to the wire you have chosen.
Use a small nail or tac to poke a hole in your case, wherever your extended antenna is and string the antenna through. Close up your case and your good to go, unless you, like me have idiot friends who will pull the antenna out. If so glue some other points of the wire on the back of the transmitter, to keep it from pulling:

Strip the end of your antenna and your good to go.

*If you need even stronger signal (good enough to override the biggest station in my area) you can touch the end of your antenna to anything metal in your car. If you touch it to any exposed wire, or the metal bracket on your seat, your entire car is now your antenna.

 

[IZwack]

Dunno if you know this but for a specific frequency, there is a specific antenna length determind by the resonant frequency and electrical resonance.

 

[custexplorer]

Dunno if you know this but for a specific frequency, there is a specific antenna length determind by the resonant frequency and electrical resonance.

I did this and tested it and it works on all the 4 random frequencies I tried. Before it didn't work for crap on any frequency. I'm not an electrician but it works.