Hi, Thanks for those great comments. I do not have external speakers; mine are built into my monitor.
When you say the default is changed to u s b speakers, pardon my ignorance here: but will that affect my monitor-based speakers? Many thanksfort hese ttips and Happy Thanksgiving to all. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Jolley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 3:18 AM Subject: Re: digital USB powered stereo fm transmitter > Hi Fred, > > I installed one of these units last night and after a bit of a wrestle got > it to work on a PC using Windows XP and JFW 5.1. > > 1. Make sure you turn off JFW (or any other screen reader), before > connecting to the PC USB port. This is because, once the connection is > made, the default player in your audio devices changes to USB Speakers. The > screen reader must be started after this happens or it locks up because the > default player has changed. It's worth mentioning, that the same problem > would occur if you started streaming, playing a CD etc, before connecting > the USB device. > > 2. I found I had to turn the volume up on the Sound dialogue which can be > reached from Control Panel. You can do this from a couple of places and it > only effects the player device being used (USB Speakers). > > 3. I noticed an annoying tone when the receiving device was emitting > audio. I found that by winding the thin wire antenna around the unit that > this hum disappeared. Don't know why! > > 4. Another tip about tuning the device. Mine came preset to 106.7 FM. > It can also be set to 106.9 FM, 107.1 ... up to 107.9 FM. These seven > settings can be chosen by the appropriate setting of three dip switches. > The switches are located behind a rubber pad which can be easily removed. > This pad is easily located being near the end of one of the sides, adjacent > to the USB socket. The documentation shows the settings for the various > frequencies, I just tried them out till finding the frequency I wanted. > > Good luck. > > Stephen Jolley > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Fred" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "PC audio discussion list. " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 11:39 AM > Subject: Re: digital USB powered stereo fm transmitter > > > >I have purchased one of these transmitters and can't seem to get it to > >work. Has anyone had any luck with it. > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Marco Curralejo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "PC audio discussion list. " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Sunday, 14 November, 2004 4:15 PM > > Subject: Re: digital USB powered stereo fm transmitter > > > > > >> hi frank. > >> > >> this unit states that it will go to 150 feet. > >> > >> cheers. > >> > >> marco. > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > >> http://www.pc-audio.org > >> > >> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > > http://www.pc-audio.org > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _______________________________________________ > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]