Anything to make the FM Transmitter actually work?

[SlinkingFerret]

I've had my neuros for over a year. I got it because there was no direct line in available for the radio on my new car and I didn't want to tear things apart to add one. So an FM transmitter is the only thing I can think of.

Rather than get an iPod and an additional addon, the Neuros 2 had it all built in.

Only it doesn't really work. It transmits. At best it sounds staticy and faded out. I'm not sure if it's that all the radio frequencies are being used where I am, but my friend just got an iPod and iTrip and her mp3 player sounds near perfect over the FM radio, even in my car. That really annoys the heck out of me.

is this a signal strength issue? Anything to boost it? Maybe an additional thing to plug into it? I just want to make the Neuros do what it's supposed to do and what I purchased it for. If I didn't luck out and get a new job where I can listen to music while I work the thing would be sitting in a box gathering dust.

[matthewbrabbin(at)gmail.com]

The only thing I can recommend is this: If you're using the feature of the Neuros to automatically find the station to broadcast to, don't. It doesn't work at all. Manually change your radio station to the one as far away as possible from any broadcasts, and get as close as possible to 100% dead air. If you live in an area where most of the frequencies are in use, it unfortunately may not be possible to get the NCast to sound perfect.

[SlinkingFerret]

Yeah, I tried the "auto" feature once.

Thats pretty much what I do. Find the station with the least transmissions on it and use that. Then I get pissed because it sounds like crap and I sit in my car for like 20 minutes changing frequencies on the Neuros and then checking to see if it's clearer on the radio.

I get it if it's a limitation of the frequencies, but the iTrip works perfectly in my car, so that says it's something with the Neuros not broadcasting as strongly/effectively and not a totally full FM range.