FM Receiver with Bluetooth Transmitter

[RoundTwo]

Has anyone ever tried to find an FM receiver with a BT transmitter so you can listen to FM radio using a BT enabled headset?

Chuck

[kortopates]

Wouldn't that be a standard capability as long as you had a BT enabled audio panel and the receiver wired into the audio panel.

Oops, I assume you were saying XM like what I have in my aircraft. Its awesome on long cross countries.

Pardon my ignorance with FM radio at altitude but have you had an opportunity to test such a set up at the altitudes you fly? I know it's much flatter where you are, but my bird is travelling machine and even up high I'd expect I' to be changing stations pretty often. Down low would be even worse. Personally I have XM radio in my vehicle and my wife's as well as the airplane- its really the way to go and not unaffordable. But then again I've never tried what you propose even before the days of XM. Except in prehistoric times I did listen to AM radio on the ADF. 

But that became old and about then we had much superior technology in the form of storing music on a memory disk - forget what they called those. But these days you can simply download your songs onto your ipad, iphone,  or even apple watch or even my garmin watch and listen to it with a bluetooth headset as you mentioned. Wouldn't that be far superior solution that trying to find and listen to FM stations while flying?

[N201MKTurbo]

I was looking for one like that for my motorcycle. Couldn’t find one before, maybe there is one now.

[N201MKTurbo]

1 minute ago, kortopates said:

Wouldn't that be a standard capability as long as you had a BT enabled audio panel and the receiver wired into the audio panel.

Oops, I assume you were saying XM like what I have in my aircraft. Its awesome on long cross countries.

Pardon my ignorance with FM radio at altitude but have you had an opportunity to test such a set up at the altitudes you fly? I know it's much flatter where you are, but my bird is travelling machine and even up high I'd expect I' to be changing stations pretty often. Down low would be even worse. Personally I have XM radio in my vehicle and my wife's as well as the airplane- its really the way to go and not unaffordable. But then again I've never tried what you propose even before the days of XM. Except in prehistoric times I did listen to AM radio on the ADF. 

But that became old and about then we had much superior technology in the form of storing music on a memory disk - forget what they called those. But these days you can simply download your songs onto your ipad, iphone,  or even apple watch or even my garmin watch and listen to it with a bluetooth headset as you mentioned. Wouldn't that be far superior solution that trying to find and listen to FM stations while flying?

I have had an FM receiver in my plane for 20 years. It works great. I listen to NPR for opposition research. They have so many stations you can usually find a station with the same show down the road. Most stations last 1/2 hour or so.

[RoundTwo]

49 minutes ago, kortopates said:

Wouldn't that be a standard capability as long as you had a BT enabled audio panel and the receiver wired into the audio panel.

Oops, I assume you were saying XM like what I have in my aircraft. Its awesome on long cross countries.

Pardon my ignorance with FM radio at altitude but have you had an opportunity to test such a set up at the altitudes you fly? I know it's much flatter where you are, but my bird is travelling machine and even up high I'd expect I' to be changing stations pretty often. Down low would be even worse. Personally I have XM radio in my vehicle and my wife's as well as the airplane- its really the way to go and not unaffordable. But then again I've never tried what you propose even before the days of XM. Except in prehistoric times I did listen to AM radio on the ADF. 

But that became old and about then we had much superior technology in the form of storing music on a memory disk - forget what they called those. But these days you can simply download your songs onto your ipad, iphone,  or even apple watch or even my garmin watch and listen to it with a bluetooth headset as you mentioned. Wouldn't that be far superior solution that trying to find and listen to FM stations while flying?

Accepting the fact that there will be a lot of scanning for new stations, it’s either that, or listen to myself hum. 

Chuck

[cliffy]

FM being line of sight you might have numerous overlap of frequencies at altitude in areas with

city populations in closer proximity than say out in Nevada/Utah

I think my phone has FM and its Bluetooth

Will ATC in your airplane override the bluetooth? 

[RoundTwo]

21 minutes ago, cliffy said:

FM being line of sight you might have numerous overlap of frequencies at altitude in areas with

city populations in closer proximity than say out in Nevada/Utah

I think my phone has FM and its Bluetooth

Will ATC in your airplane override the bluetooth? 

Too many stations would be a good problem to have, and yes, the Bose headsets have multiple operation modes for handling Bluetooth input and COM activity.