{"id":311,"date":"2006-03-16T05:18:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-16T05:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/Hardware\/Toys\/itrippin-no-more.html"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"itrippin-no-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/2006\/03\/16\/itrippin-no-more\/","title":{"rendered":"(i)Trippin&#8217; no more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally gave up on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.griffintechnology.com\/products\/itrip\/\">iTrip<\/a>, and dug up my old cassette adapter for the daily commute.  Don&#8217;t get me wrong- the iTrip is a great device; I just can&#8217;t use it anymore.  Much as I hate dealing with the wire trailing from my dash, it beats not hearing my iPod at all.  <\/p>\n<p>The main problem is location.  I live in Northern Delaware, which puts me about an hour from Baltimore, 45 minutes from Philly, and 15 minutes from Wilmington.  I get radio stations from all three.  The Baltimore stations aren&#8217;t really listenable, but there&#8217;s enough signal to make using the iTrip not possible on those frequencies.  <\/p>\n<p>In fact, I&#8217;ve only found one frequency that works reliably with the iTrip.  Of course, everyone else is using the same frequency, either with iPod-connected FM transmitters, or (more and more) with satellite radios.  I don&#8217;t know what kind of numbers Howard Stern is pulling on Sirius, but I hear him several times a week as someone&#8217;s Sirius transmitter bleeds over to my radio. <\/p>\n<p>The evening commute is the worst, since the traffic is generally much heavier, and of course slower.  I also see lots of semis during evening rush, and they <em>all<\/em> seem to have some kind of transmitter these days- and usually much more powerful than my poor little iTrip.  It was up to the task a year ago when I got my first iTrip (I traded up at Christmas for the one with the knob), but not with today&#8217;s crowded airwaves.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally gave up on my iTrip, and dug up my old cassette adapter for the daily commute. Don&#8217;t get me wrong- the iTrip is a great device; I just can&#8217;t use it anymore. Much as I hate dealing with the wire trailing from my dash, it beats not hearing my iPod at all. The [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-toys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}