20 Most Recent Belkin TuneBase Questions & Answers

A simple monopole antenna tuned to the FM band should be almost 3 feet long. Notice that your Belkin box doesn't have that. When you touch the gooseneck, you couple some of the signal out your arm, and you become the antenna. Sort of. Also, your car radio antenna is in a terrible position to receive it. It may even be on the roof of your car, which is great for receiving vertically polarized FM stations from far away but bad for receiving signals from inside the car, through sheet metal. The other problem is that there are legal limits to what these gadgets can transmit. I had one that really stunk, and when I took it apart it had a spot labeled "ANT" on the circuit board, and with a 32 inch piece of wire attached, the power radiated was 20 dB higher ... that's 100 times as much. I picked it up almost 100 feet away. Your old one probably put out too much power. Now if you wound a couple foot long piece of wire around your Belkin and fooled around with it a bit, you'd probably notice that the signal comes in nice and clear, because it takes the place of your arm grabbing the gooseneck. You could clip the other end somewhere where it wouldn't rattle around. But, you know, that could be ******* and folks in cars around you might hear it.

I use a cheap Mp3 player and transmitter combined and it works very well. Why a more expensive product should be so disappointing it is difficult to guess. The obvious answer is the the unit is faulty if it doesn't perform as the instruction manual and advertising suggests and probably should be returned to the retailer for a refund. It is possible the display is telling lies and the actual transmitter frequency shifts when no one is holding the gooseneck. It might be necessary to tune the radio slightly off-frequency for clear reception. It could be second channel interference and so tuning to the other end of the radio scale might be useful. Mine is tuned to 108 Mhz because the band there is completely clear. It could be the signal to noise ratio is elevated due to inefficient grounding of the power socket or it is possibly picking up electrical interference from some device in the car's electronics. The fact that you have already used a transmitter successfully in your car and others are complaining of the same problem, it would indicate China has exported a bad batch with the same or similar faults - maybe the gooseneck should be grounded and isn't... I suggest you visit the retailer and express your displeasure and show him a copy of your complaint and the other comments.

Check to see that the actual radio frequency and the belkin frequency are the same...

****, I was hoping someone answered this because this is exactly what I want to know too! I don't want to spend money on a new transmitter when replacing that stupid rubber piece will probably be enough.

Did you broke something while plugging in the fm tunebase? Look if there is some parts that remains in the iPod plug...

I need user instruction to get started can't find anywhere on the internet. Please advise. Angie Thank you

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Manuals in pdf format for Belkin TuneBase FM can be selected from this site:
http://en-us-support.belkin.com/app/answers/list/p/955/kw/tunebase%20fm/r_id/166/search/1

Same problem... Did you find a solution?

Yes as long as the wattage voltage etc... align between the device and the max output of the adapter you should be just fine in this particular case. I have the same adapter and I can not even remember what it initially came with but it has been so handy that I will keep it as long as it lasts. ;)