Hi,

This question is for my sister... she has a sirius radio in her car and she's getting a ton of static when she's trying to listen to it by broadcasting to an unused FM station.

Someone mentioned to her that it was because of terrestrial radio stations recently increasing the power of their signals... but that doesn't sound quite right to me... so I offered to do a bit of research on the Internet to see if anyone has run into a similar problem.

I couldn't think of a better place to ask. Has anyone run into a problem with an unusual amount of static when listing to a satellite radio over an FM transmission? Is there a fix? (beyond hard wiring the reciever to the head unit)

Try to find another frequency in her area that she can use.

Here is a website where she can find local frequency's near her in which there is no transmitting going on:

http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/vacant

Also, what type of receiver does she have? A little info here can help as well.

Unfortunately, the newer models(2006 and later) have WEAK WIRELESS FM TRANSMISSION due to the FCC making sure that both XM and Sirius weren't EXCEEDING(which it turns out they were by a mile, and the FCC cracked down on them) the limits that the wireless capabilities have were really toned down compared to previous models.

An example would be something like the Sportster 2/2.5 as compared to later makes of the Sportster 3 and expecially the Sportster 4.

The Wireless FM transmitting on the older units was really CRANKED UP so much so that people found out you could receive the signal from their units at least 1 city block from where it was located(sometimes even more, depending on location/environment).

I had the same problem. Switch to a different frequency. It's easy to do on the Sirius radios. For CD quality sound, wire it to the Aux jack on the back of the car receiver.

You might consider a new in dash radio with a front auxilary input.
Makes it very easy to plug in.

The sound difference is well worth get an aux input.

FM transmitter is terrible by comparison and a pain to keep changing
stations when traveling.

bc

Pulled up to a traffic light one night and my XM audio over FM suddenly changed to the "Tigger Movie". Looked next to me into the minivan with the DVD player on...

Nice tigger, good thing it wasn't a nasty movie...

I dont have an aux in and cant get one for my model of Kenwood so I use an FM Modulator I bought from Crutchfield. I don't get any static and it sounds CD quality. I am very happy with it.

To get aux in you'll need to get a new in dash receiver with it.
I prefer the front input as it's easy to plug in and unplug.
And no worry about a rear cable going bad.

More and more have front inputs.

bjf