{"id":2979,"date":"2007-12-10T03:30:18","date_gmt":"2007-12-10T07:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soulhuntre.com\/items\/date\/2007\/12\/10\/the-generation-2-fm-transmitter\/"},"modified":"2007-12-10T03:30:18","modified_gmt":"2007-12-10T07:30:18","slug":"the-generation-2-fm-transmitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/2007\/12\/10\/the-generation-2-fm-transmitter\/","title":{"rendered":"The Generation 2 FM transmitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Generation 2 FM transmitter is no better than the Gen 1, but at lease the gen 1 had a antenna hack available. I cracked open the Gen 2 (easier than it seems&#8230; there is a big magnet that holds the aluminum body on and some adhesive. Just get a screwdriver in there and twist &#8230; however this WILL slightly damage the casing of the transmitter).  <\/p>\n<p>In any case&#8230; looking at the circuit board I see no obvious antenna to solder a wire onto. Any advice? Here are the photos I took of the circuit board.  <\/p>\n<p>I HAD hoped that the long wire on this kit would have been used as an antenna so that we got some decent range&#8230; but no dice.  <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/soulhuntre.thenewoldschool.com\/files\/2007\/12\/windowslivewriterthegeneration2fmtransmitter-2330zunefm-side1-2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px;border-top: 0px;border-left: 0px;border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"260\" alt=\"zunefm_side1\" src=\"http:\/\/soulhuntre.thenewoldschool.com\/files\/2007\/12\/windowslivewriterthegeneration2fmtransmitter-2330zunefm-side1-thumb.jpg\" width=\"252\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/soulhuntre.thenewoldschool.com\/files\/2007\/12\/windowslivewriterthegeneration2fmtransmitter-2330zunefm-side2-2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px;border-top: 0px;border-left: 0px;border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"260\" alt=\"zunefm_side2\" src=\"http:\/\/soulhuntre.thenewoldschool.com\/files\/2007\/12\/windowslivewriterthegeneration2fmtransmitter-2330zunefm-side2-thumb.jpg\" width=\"259\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" style=\"padding-right: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-bottom: 0px;margin: 0px;padding-top: 0px\"> [tags]zune2, zune, hardware[\/tags]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Generation 2 FM transmitter is no better than the Gen 1, but at lease the gen 1 had a antenna hack available. I cracked open the Gen 2 (easier than it seems&#8230; there is a big magnet that holds the aluminum body on and some adhesive. Just get a screwdriver in there and twist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":53198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[286],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}