Tempting. I rarely bother plugging my phone into my car stereo. I might be more likely to use it with a Bluetooth connection. If my new car has an aux input. Will have to check that first.
I found the sound quality to be fine, but I think that's down to my amp/speakers rather than the adapter.
The one I have is powered over USB, so standard USB 5V charger is fine. There's probably battery ones too.
This is the one I have - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/221667704620 - but I wouldn't recommend it purely because of the awful announcement when you connect.
I have a similar one, got it for streaming to my amp at home.
Major issues :
The annoying voice
Lack of isolation on the charging circuit meaning you can't use it while charging due to the noise.
It's so bloody small I've lost it.
Ah yeah, there's definitely a bit of an isolation problem, but I thought it was more to do with poor isolation from my mini-amp. I think it's usually a ground-loop problem.
I had big problems with ground-loop issues with a Raspberry Pi and cheapo amps. All the USB activity could be "heard".
How do I make something run when the Pi boots up? I tried it before, I think I installed sommat which modified sommat else but it caused problems when rebooting, got stuck and I think it tried running the program again instead of closing it.
I'm pretty sure that's what the program I installed edited for me. It showed a list of programs, I selected mine, and it did something to make it run at startup. I'll try it manually and see if it works properly.
Just been watching a flight that was diverted from Leeds to Manchester because of high winds, then couldn't land at Manchester because of an issue there and has just been circling near my house, and I can see it going round outside.
B-) I want one now...
Would you kindly point me towards one of these newfangled Internet page things describing how I should build the antenna? Thank you!
As you'll see I'm now making better antennas and will be putting one outside hopefully.
What annoys me are the planes that don't transmit location data :@ so they're not shown on the map. I've installed a version of the software that does MLAT stuff to eventually be able to give locations for the non-location planes by sharing data and signal strength across different trackers.
The adapter you'll need is an RTL-SDR USB DVB-T adapter. Best ones seem to have the R820T rather than E4000. It should have the RTL2832U in it too. You probably don't want to spend more than £5 on this.
Depending on what USB dongle you get you may need an adapter of some sort to plug in other antennas.
Mine has an MCX socket (which is the tiny one). I already had one of these:
To make it a standard Belling-Lee RF plug. But you can get MCX-F-type if you have that sort of coax already made.
Some dongles come with a Belling-Lee RF socket instead already so you'll then need to decide what you want to break it out to.
My spider antenna has a BNC connector on the bottom so I have a BNC to Belling-Lee RF adapter. I also have various other adapters that go between BNC/F-type/RF etc in case I want to use other cables. Which I probably will because I have a flat t-type cable to use through the window.
My cantenna looks like this:
It is surprisingly good considering how cheap it is to make. A good first one to try if you have the bits. Simply a can, a female-female f-type adapter, some coax and some copper to pop in the top.
There's various threads here that have lots of info: