This is probably mis-posted but I'm not certain which NG to ask.
I recently bought an iPod and a DLO TransPod, which is supposed to be used in the vehicle to play whatever is on the iPod. You select an un-used frequency on the radio and then match the same frequency on the Transpod. The thing is supposed to transmit over your vehicle radio.
But it didn't. Well, sort of, but I had to have the iPod and the radio both cranked to max, volume, so all I got was static.
I went to see the dealer, and he told me to try another transmitter by a different manufacturer. I did, and this thing works like a charm. Beautiful transmission. He told me this happens all the time - some radios like one manufacturer's transmitter, some like another. There doesn't seem to be a way to predict what works with which radio.
It all sounded like so much applesauce to me, until the second transmitter worked so well. So:
How do these things work? I was assuming they would have a mini-FM Transmitter built into them, with maybe a range of a couple of meters, but if that is so, why wouldn't one radio pick up transmissions from the TransPod, but would from the other device? (In both cases there is line of sight to the vehicle antenna; in both cases about 0.6 meters as the radio wave travels. And it is a real antenna, not one of those things built into a windshield, either.)
Any wisdom? Thanks, folks. (And if this is the wrong N/G, please point me and watch me go.)
HR.