Retro / Antique Radio w/ MP3 Player

The idea isn't THAT novel, but I think it's fairly clever...I bought a retro Panasonic radio for 5 dollars at Betty Griffin House, picked up a 20 dollar fm transmitter, and now I can broadcast from my mp3 player through the radio. An added bonus is the tinny, monophonic sound that is output. NICE.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• radio
• antique
• retro
• fm
• transmitter
• mp3
• player

[SamuraiClinton]

Sound is kinda choppy. Anyway, FM radio is 1950, it's Ike's America, it's the bloated enemy in a crumbling castle, they should stop putting FM radio features in MP3 players, because I never even utilize that feature anymore due to radio's ugliness.

[captainezchord]

Isn't that the idea? It's new music but the crappy receiver adds this nostalgic quality.

[SamuraiClinton]

FM transmitters YES, FM stations NO! anybody with me?

[SamuraiClinton]

I say, we "kill ugly radio" like Frank Zappa once said.

[coondogtheman1234]

some FM radios are the autoscan type I hate those b/c you dont have control over the tuning and if you lose the reception it skips your station and u need to start over and if the station you want is distant the radio might skip it, if they put radios in mp3 players make them have am and FM and come in super clear and have the ability to record in great quality files

[SamuraiClinton]

The crappy receiver may add "nostalgic" feel, but the sound on this video kinda misrepresents it.

[wilkes85]

So how does that work, u install the FM transmitter inside the radio itself? Cool idea. What i do though, is just use one of those cassette adapters; put it in the tape deck, then plug the cord into the MP3 player, then i can play MP3s over the stereo. of course why do that when u could record your MP3s onto cassette anyway.

[SuperMatch2007]

Poor quality, but cool video.

[CassetteMaster]

Cool! Nice old radio!