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Adapting US Car Stereo for Irish Use

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  • 15-05-2007 1:05pm
    #1
    Grow up, kids
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    I have a Sony BT5000: http://www.caraudiodiscount.com/acatalog/sony_mex_bt5000.html

    It was a gift brought back from the US. Now, because it's a US model, the FM tuner only picks up frequencies ending in odd numbers, i.e. 98.1, 102.3 etc. It doesn't stop on even frequencies such as 104.4 (small mercies!) or 105.2 and so on.

    Now I know there's a device you can get for Japanese imports that shifts the band up a bit, but that won't fix my problem.

    Does anyone know of a solution, or am I stuck with it as it is?


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    crosstownk
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    There is no solution, afaik. I looked into this before when I had a US version of a Pioneer - but that was about 6 or 7 years ago. You will also find that it won't have some RDS functions and that the PTY codings are different.
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    Grow up, kids
    Closed Accounts Posts: 190 ✭✭Grow up, kids


    Ouch, as I feared. Thanks anyway.


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    neacy69
    Registered Users Posts: 2,823 ✭✭✭neacy69


    I have one of these also and the last thread that I read about it on here decided that there was no solution!!!


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    Nephew
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    I have the exact radio, it does pick up radio1, 2fm and today fm but depending on the area the reception can get a bit dodgy. I use the radio on my creative zen mp3 player and stream it via a bluetooth adapter, this one to be exact http://www.pixmania.co.uk/uk/uk/455367/art/sony/tmr-bt10-bluetooth-transm.html I picked it up for less than e50 somewhere online, I wouldn't waste your time buying one of those ipod radio transmitters, especially with an american radio.


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    blastman
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    As said, there's no solution unless the head unit was sold in Europe and the US. Then there MAY be a factory setting that can be changed, but you would have to look for the info specific to the head unit.

    I have a Pioneer head unit that was US-only, so I'm stuck with the limitations of American FM. No AF or RDS is a pain, but no FM104 almost makes up for it!


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