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Uncle Peter · 06-10-2018, 16:07

You'll be lucky to find a portable music player that doesn't use the earphone wire as a crude antenna.

Consider the wavelength that VHF/FM radio broadcasts on. A remotely efficient antenna: say a quarter wave, minus it's counterpoise would have a length of over 70cm.

Anything that would have to fit inside a portable music player would basically function as nothing more than a matching circuit and be pretty much useless unless you were stood near to the transmitter.

As Scotty supposedly said: ye cannae change the laws of physics

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Uncle Peter 81-82-83-84 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: on holiday by mistake Age: 55 Services: Vivid 200, Full House, V6 x2 Posts: 5,977	Re: anyone recomend a mp3 player which is bluetooth and has a radio on please You'll be lucky to find a portable music player that doesn't use the earphone wire as a crude antenna. Consider the wavelength that VHF/FM radio broadcasts on. A remotely efficient antenna: say a quarter wave, minus it's counterpoise would have a length of over 70cm. Anything that would have to fit inside a portable music player would basically function as nothing more than a matching circuit and be pretty much useless unless you were stood near to the transmitter. As Scotty supposedly said: ye cannae change the laws of physics