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I have both the Belkin TuneBase and TuneFM (one in my car and one in my work van). I've been able to find a clear station that seems to be good most places I go. My work takes me various places around central Indiana (I travel about 200 miles a day). Great product other than the keyboard trying to come off of my TuneBase.

Faxanadu wrote:

can anyone recommend a good one on the cheap side (like, under $70 bucks?) i have an old belkin tunecast, and it's gotten to where it won't work unless the cable is aligned exactly right. Which is an obvious pain.

Are you implying that it actually did work at some point? I tried a bunch a few years ago and had no luck. I got a new car recently and tried some of the newer models. Never did find one that worked acceptably.

In the past, my recommendation was always to ditch your crappy factory unit and get one with an aux input. But my car had a fairly decent upgraded sound package already so I picked up a PAC AUX input adapter I think they make them for most cars and it's just a matter of getting to the back of your stereo and plugging the little box inline with the stereo wiring harness. After that you've got a kick ass wired input that you won't have to mess with every 50 feet down the road.

Daddyo wrote:

You set the iTrip to the frequency you want and you set your radio the same and it works.

I've used the iTrip in the past (have lost mine, but I know its somewhere.)

It worked really well except on really long drives when a new station would dominate the station I set it to and had to find a new one.

I recommend it.

ptervin wrote:

Good FM Transmitter = Oxymoron

Well, they can work IF you live in a region which doesn't have crowding on the FM band which happens around most of major US cities. Also make sure that the store from which you buy such has a decent return policy: your car can be built in such a way that an FM transmitter cannot reach your own car's antenna reliably.

Given the option: if you can, use pottymouth's suggestion or use your car stereo's auxilary input to wire your iPod directly to your car's stereo.