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Originally Posted by jslanger
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The key is to get one that you can power through the cigarette lighter. The battery powered ones usually don't put out a powerful enough signal.
You could also go the very simple and cheap way of using a tape adapter (if your car still has a tape player). The sound quality is supposed to be excellent, and tape adaptors are quite cheap. Someone else asked about ways to hook their axim up to the car stereo, and here are some of my suggestions.
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I never planned on getting one that ran on batteries, keeping them charged/bought wouldn't be worth it. If my car had a cassette deck, this problem would be solved, sadly enough though, it doesn't.
I rather get a transmitter that is powerful, instead of a FM modulator which is the only other option I can think that is practical, which can take place of the antenna (you plug the antenna into this thing, it has a toggle switch for "antenna on" / "antenna off" and it will broadcast to the radio over a wire, but on a radio station).
That seems like the easiest thing, besides just replacing the radio out completely, which requires a lot more steps in my Malibu than I care to take. The down side to this is usually you have to get back in the back, typically taking the radio out, moving some wires around, and plugging it in, so it is not transportable at all.