>>Fred:
>> I think Thorn here in the SF Bay Area has a 4th type of MP3 in his
>> roadster. He's demonstrated it to the BADROC crowd. He has a PC rigged >in
>> his trunk connected to the playback unit at the dash. And he has a
>Ken:
> This type of installation I've seen and it is very cool, lots of music and
> lots of info on the control display in the cockpit.
>
>> transmit/receive antenna array for a satellite connection, so he can >pull
>> content from the entire Internet (and from his home MP3
>
> OK, now this I need more info on!!! Since I live on a sailboat and do
> computer work for a living, I'm just waiting for this technology to become
> more affordable. How much $$$? How much bandwidth uplink & downlink?
>
> I had this great MP3 player on my last 2 cross-country trips in my roadster,
> it's this great invention called a laptop! I had 2800 songs and a pair of
> earplug headphones. Even after 7000 miles I still hadn't heard all the
> songs. One idea I had was to get a Radio Shack wireless FM microphone ($25
> or $30) and play the laptop output into the FM transmitter so anyone else in
> the caravan w/o tunes could dial into my moving radio station with their own
> little fm radio headset. They would have to keep up with me of course! ;)
Holy cow! And I thought I have a lot of toys! I think the wireless FM idea
might work if we can get to the input of the transmitter and pad the audio
down to mic level. Might want to figure out some sort of a gain antenna to
increase the range.
Let me think about this a bit. It might be much better and practically as
cheap to build a low power FM transmitter from a Ramsey (or similar) kit.
> See you all at Shasta (and Eugene)!
Can't make it this year, but already planning foe next summer. On the
subject of mobile entertainment, I borrowed a G3 PowerBook to do a meeting
presentation a few weeks ago. I picked it up on Friday and was sitting in
bed watching Lethal Weapon 2 on it when Elayne got home. After making the
expected comment about "Can't you ever get away from a computer?!", she
realized what I was doing. She then said that if I get one of these, SHE
could watch movies while I drive cross country.
Oh well, whatever greases the way to new toys, right? Ken, you want my old
PB5300 as a mobile MP3 player? It's got an 8 gig drive in it.
Later, Ron
Ronnie Day
ronday@home.com
Dallas/Ft. Worth
'71 510 2-dr (Prepared Class Autocrosser)
'73 510 2-dr (Street Toy)
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