Works great! I picked the Belkin Tunecast II up a few weeks ago before driving cross country from Brooklyn to Wisconsin (about a 14 hour car ride). I had recently bought a Rio Karma mp3 player and wanted to use it on the journey. Having just got back from my trip, I couldn't be happier with how the Belkin performed. I was driving a 1994 Saturn SL2 with a Sony Xplod CD player and placed the Rio/Belkin devices on the passenger seat where they would be in easy reach if I had to change the radio frequency. ...
[Belkin F8V3080 TuneCast II Mobile FM Transmitter - Digital With Dc Jack review by T. Brunner can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0  |
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| Reviewed by: | T. Brunner | | Review Date: | 08/08/2004 | | User Location: | Brooklyn, NY USA | | Review From: | User Review |  |  |
100% (23 of 23) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Workable, with a bit of effort
[Belkin F8V3080 TuneCast II Mobile FM Transmitter - Digital With Dc Jack review by D. J. Douma "flicker" can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 8.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | D. J. Douma "flicker" | | Review Date: | 02/13/2005 | | User Location: | Sunnyvale, CA USA | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
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Needs an external antenna This unit requires two things to work well.
(i) The unit's internal Rohm FM transmitter IC needs a good level of audio signal to drive the stereo encoder, otherwise you will hear a lot of channel noise in your radio speakers.
If your MP3 player does not play very loud in headphones then you will be disappointed. An iRiver 790 MP3 player is an example of a loud unit and the TuneCast 2 then produces a pretty good noise free stereo signal.
(ii)The only ...
[Belkin F8V3080 TuneCast II Mobile FM Transmitter - Digital With Dc Jack review by A. Breton "Dave B." can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 8.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | A. Breton "Dave B." | | Review Date: | 08/05/2004 | | User Location: | Newport | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
100% (13 of 13) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Weighing in a second time (experienced review) Having used the Belkin for a month now, here is an update to my last review with a more comprehensive rating.
Tradeoff in quality for quantity
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There is a tradeoff in quality for quantity. Although you can get more tunes on your mp3 player vs. CD, you cannot get CD quality. At best, you can only get great FM sound quality.
Things that hamper FM quality
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Weather - Changes in weather bri...
[Belkin F8V3080 TuneCast II Mobile FM Transmitter - Digital With Dc Jack review by B. Austin "Music composer" can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 8.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | B. Austin "Music composer" | | Review Date: | 09/29/2004 | | User Location: | Canada | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
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Cheap, But Not the Best Solution I live in Boston and found a decent frequency with which to use the Belkin Tunecast 2. I actually received the best sound from a frequency that had slight bleeding from another station (go figure). It was impossible for me to find an interference free frequency. Even with the best frequency, I can always hear some extraneous noise during quieter parts of songs. It also took a bit of driving around before I found the best frequency. A station that worked well in one part of the city had problems ...
[Belkin F8V3080 TuneCast II Mobile FM Transmitter - Digital With Dc Jack review by fidficus can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 6.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | fidficus | | Review Date: | 11/12/2004 | | User Location: | West Roxbury, MA USA | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
100% (11 of 11) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Great for car! I used this item in the car with a MP3 player. It is very easy to use and you do not have to worry about the battery since it comes with a adaptor. The sound is great! I live in DC area and still can find a few frequencies to use it. I also tried to use it at home. The sound is OK, presumbly the battery did not work well as car adaptor. Generally, this is a great product!
[Belkin F8V3080 TuneCast II Mobile FM Transmitter - Digital With Dc Jack review by John can be read at buy.com] | | buy.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | John | | Review Date: | 07/17/2005 | | User Location: | Rockville, MD | | Review From: | User Review |  | | |
100% (10 of 10) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Best FM Transmitter Out There - A Review of Four First of all, all FM transmitters cause noise on the receiving end, if you turn volume up enough. And don't expect the sound quality to be better than your FM radio itself. It will be worse. If possible, use a wired option such as a "cassette connector" for car. That said, wireless transmitters do offer convenience, and some are better, while others are worse, depend mostly on unit's output power, range, and station selections. After trying out 4 of them personally, I found station selectio...
[Belkin F8V3080 TuneCast II Mobile FM Transmitter - Digital With Dc Jack review by L. Dai can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | L. Dai | | Review Date: | 11/05/2004 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
98% (806 of 816) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Super clear sound I can tell you why not some other FM transmitters.
1 They dont use dual source of power (battery and car lighter adaptor). This does. It uses AAA cells or Adaptor that comes with it)
2. There are some available for $20 trust me if you want sterio sound you cant be happy with them. I borught two and returned both before I brought this one
3. $20 one give 88.1 to 88.7 Mz on FM in 4 or 5 presets. The range is hardly enough. Static noise will kill sound quality completely. Infact ...
[Belkin F8V3080 TuneCast II Mobile FM Transmitter - Digital With Dc Jack review by S. Kakulla can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | S. Kakulla | | Review Date: | 10/01/2004 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
95% (19 of 20) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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very satisfied with purchase i've never written a review of any of the products i've bought from amazon before, but i felt pretty compelled to write one about this.if you consider the price and utility tradeoffs for this transmitter, its of good value. of course you can't expect to get cd quality transmission from this, but it works pretty well for the most part. the only bad thing i've found so far is that even on stations where i get the clearest signals, there is some static in the background. this static is only aud...
[Belkin F8V3080 TuneCast II Mobile FM Transmitter - Digital With Dc Jack review by nalaree27 can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 8.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | nalaree27 | | Review Date: | 07/10/2004 | | User Location: | los angeles, ca | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
94% (17 of 18) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Works excellent with 12vDC I recently bought this FM transmitter to feed Tamil mp3 songs to the Car stereo via its FM receiver as mp3 format is not generally acknowledged by almost all car CD players in the US. [I don't know why?]
I tested this piece in 3 cars on our recent Longweekend trip to "Death Valley, California" connecting with a Sandisk 1GB mp3 player/Sony CDman and found the following observations. Overall this transmitter is an excellent piece and workmanship.
Pros:
1. It is dr...
[Belkin F8V3080 TuneCast II Mobile FM Transmitter - Digital With Dc Jack review by Karthik "Karthikeyan K" can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | Karthik "Karthikeyan K" | | Review Date: | 02/28/2005 | | User Location: | San Francisco | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
92% (12 of 13) Users Found This Review Helpful |