Short range rebroadcasting of Air America Radio

[cheezus]

I move about my home and would like to listen to AAR in whatever room I'm in. With radio, this is as easy as turning another radio on. As I have no local AAR I stream from the Internet, and there's lag between computers playing as well as the extra bandwidth soaked up with multiple connections. I was thinking that one could just feed a computer's output into a short range FM transmitter (like magic microphone or those iPod car things). The problem is that I'm in the middle of an apartment building, and it would be a shame if I were giving my neighbors easy, unauthorized acess to a copyrighted broadcast. Does anyone know what sort of regulations would surround this? A better technical solution? Could you imagine what would happen if AAR started to become available on an unused FM frequency in apartment buildings around the country? It would be worse than all those free and open wifi access points!

[tech3149]

1. try here

http://www.circuitcity.com/detail.jsp?oid=89462&WT.mc_n=4&c=1&b=g&u=c&WT.mc_t=U

[cheezus]

2. What is the range? Will it bother my neighbors?

Thanks for the recommendation; is this a product you have youself? If so, how do you like it? What sort of range does it have? My <b>primary</b> concern is how this could affect neighboors.

[tech3149]

4. I don't have it

From the description I expect it would have a range of under 100 ft. It shouldn't bother your neighbors since you'd have to tune to an open frequency. I have to get something for myself since it's not very productive sitting in front of the computer all day.

[Gloria]

3. Don't they have headphones you can use that will pick up

from room to room from the computer?? I thought I saw some at Radio Shack...

[BrewerJohn]

5. 900 MHz wireless headphones

That's my solution. Mine are from JVC (HA-W300RF) and work great. Current prices for the JVC run about $60 or so (mine was a freebee), but there must be cheaper models out there.