subject: Suggestion of Building a FM transmitter at home [print this page] Some time ago I was looking for a small FM transmitter to use around my house and I wasn't able to find anything useful. I found a few do it yourself electronics kits, and several portable or battery operated devices.
You love to listen to music while you are at home doing things such as chores or odd jobs. All your favorite music is on your iPod or your computer. You don't really want to wear headphones or earbuds but you can't hear your music when you are out of the room.
An easier solution is for the music to travel wirelessly throughout your home. This can be done quite simply using an FM transmitter. An FM transmitter is a device that plugs into your audio or video player and the sound is broadcast through the transmitter as an FM radio signal which can then be picked up by a receiver such as a radio.
Using an FM transmitter could easily solve your problem of having music in any room of your house. Unfortunately most FM transmitters on the market have a short range of around 9 m which using an average radio isn't a strong enough signal to reach all the rooms in your house.
In order to solve this problem you really need to find an FM transmitter that can broadcast throughout your home. You want to look for a product that is marketed as a whole house FM transmitter, rather than a regular FM transmitter. You also want to make sure that your whole house FM transmitter is stereo. To get good quality music you also want to have stereo FM radios in your home.
The simple FM transmitter links your home-entertainment system to a portable radio that can be carried around the house and into the backyard (see the figure). Using this device, music playing on the CD changer in the living room can also be heard on a portable radio by the backyard barbeque.
A much better solution to this is to make the background music journey easily inside the house. This merely needs using an FM transmitter, a tool connected to your own movie or even audio player to permit the actual seem to be broadcast because an fm radio transmission that may be acquired utilizing a recipient, just like a radio.
