Don asked:
> Has anyone found a good light AM/FM/MP3 player 
> that works well in the air?

Any MP3 player would work well in the plane.  Go for long battery life, lots
of storage and ease of control.  I'm happy with my iPod and upgraded from my
old 1GB Nano last year in spite of the price.  My iPod Nano 16GB has two or
three times the battery life of the Sansa Fuze I got for my daughter (and
over double the price).

Also, her Fuze also has an FM radio tuner and can record audio so it has
more utility for her.  The radio stations I listen to most of the time are
AM.

I'd worry about radio reception in the air.  Sitting in my driveway in
not-all-that-crowded Central Illinois (Peoria), I was looking for unused
frequencies for my MP3-player-to-FM-radio modulator (my car's cassette
player gave up the ghost from many years and a hundred and more audio books
playing through the cassette adapter).  There were almost no gaps on the
spectrum with three adjacent unused frequencies.  In the air, you might get
so many stations on top of each other, interfering with each other because
of good line-of-sight transmission, that radio stations might not work so
well.

Does anyone have experience with in-the-air radio reception?

Ed

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