{"id":41671,"date":"2020-01-19T09:07:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-19T13:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=41671"},"modified":"2020-01-19T09:07:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T13:07:00","slug":"external-fm-antenna-for-android-phones-tablets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/external-fm-antenna-for-android-phones-tablets\/","title":{"rendered":"External FM antenna for Android phones\/tablets"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Adid, who writes:<\/p>\n

Check this little gadget for android phones or tablets<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.aliexpress.com\/item\/32976847250.html<\/a><\/p>\n

If they have the FM app installed than this will come handy.<\/p>\n

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One needs to select speaker and not earphone as expected.<\/p>\n

It works fine here. (I don’t know if Apple phones have an FM module)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thank you, Adid! Very cool! This little antenna costs $0.90 USD–an insanely low price.<\/p>\n

If you have an old set of earphones lying around the house (I probably have two dozen that ship with various radios) you could also snip off the earpieces and use the pigtail as a wire FM antenna.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Adid, who writes: Check this little gadget for android phones or tablets https:\/\/www.aliexpress.com\/item\/32976847250.html If they have the FM app installed than this will come handy. One needs to select speaker and not earphone as expected. It works fine here. (I don’t know if Apple phones have an FM module) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3781,3],"tags":[8269,1923,1584,8268],"class_list":["post-41671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fm","category-news","tag-adid","tag-android","tag-fm","tag-fm-antenna"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-aQ7","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":58664,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/idf-radio-station-on-mediumwave\/","url_meta":{"origin":41671,"position":0},"title":"IDF radio station on Mediumwave","author":"Thomas","date":"January 11, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Adid, who writes: Hi Thomas, Due to the current war in Israel, GLZ the IDF radio station will relay it's FM content to 1287Khz and 945Khz on MW. 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