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http://www.baltimoresun.com/te...linesSaw the above article today on interference problems using FM modulators. Seems Howard Stern has been showing up on religious programming!Quote »Startled fans of National Public Radio stations and Christian broadcasts at the low end of the FM dial are complaining that satellite shock-jock Howard Stern has burst in on their morning drive-time listening.Normal car radios can't pick up signals from satellite-based subscription services such as Sirius, which carries Howard Stern's show. Instead, engineers blame badly installed, intentionally altered or defective equipment that transmits signals from Sirius receivers into their owners' car radios on FM frequencies.Under the wrong circumstances, these gizmos can turn cars driven by Sirius subscribers into rolling FM broadcast stations ...Copyright Baltimore Sun

It's not that they're defective, badly installed, or altered...it's that they're high quality and powerful enough to give a clear signal to our own car, and it can be heard in adjacent vehicles. CP listens to mine sometimes when we're on trips where we're taking both cars. If someone is using an occupied frequency, then it will produce interference. However, this problem is solved quite easily...speed up or slow down; that will get you away from the car whose signal your radio is picking up. And the chances that every single person on the Interstate who is using Sirius with the internal FM modulator is 1) listening to Howard Stern and 2) using the exact same FM modulation frequency, is between slim and none.