I used to fly all over Kansas with my "boombox" and bag cell phone on the seat beside me, cell phone reception was fantastic of course, and the digital FM tuner had no problems ever with too many stations. The only problem I ever had, was with the boombox turned up, sometimes I would miss a call on the cabin speaker navcom. Towers don't like you when you ignore their calls!
--- In [email protected], "Ed Burkhead" <e...@...> wrote: > > > 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 >
