also people weren’t getting new cars, only influencers can a ford the big bulky ones too, a lot of older cars have no bluetooth, or dab. I suppose most people would use bluetooth its wireless, aux less important, audio is better through an aux connection, in a car or a wireless speaker don’t suppose anyone notice, would be funny to connect a wire to bluetooth kind of speaker then have a good quality speaker!. The use of in car transmitters does seem to be a for wireless connection, suppose they would just be stuck using a speaker in their phone, wireless earbuds, maybe impractical for the car.The common frequencies are 87.5 and 108,
I could problalby hear at least one if I sat here listening for half an hour here, 87.6 is another (for in car dab adaptors) some older ones just have a few frequencies go up in 200khz steps from the bottom 87.5, think they go up to around 88.3. I’ve come across them on all kinds of frequencies though, most do tune to all frequencies, noticed them on 100.0 lately, I suppose .0 frequencies always look better on a display, 91.0, another the other day. Afew weeks ago I thought I might be finally hearing something, I heard something on 88.2, it was there playing 90’s britpop, weak but there for a long time with the signal fading slightly, then all of sutton it came much stronger, it was in car transmitter, noone had set up anything as excitng.Most of the time I tend to hear music, mostly alot of rap/rnb, styles can be far ranging, i’ve heard songs I recognized, stereo love, this was spooky, I did have that song and play it on the same frequency i’d use, did think it was some kind of trick, it seemed kind of trippy. Theres sat nav directions, phone conversations in the past, sometimes dead silent, i’m not able to decode the stereo, they sometimes appear in mono, the audio can be quite tinny, on car stereos, theres bass boost, they won’t notice.
I do worry about fm, don’t think it has much of future, it is felt eerie since 2020, no pirates been heard from towerblocks since that time, alot of oldies stations it has become like am. I do wonder myself if they are more used than listening to stations on fm, does seem like theres nothing there that would interest someone now, stuff on their phone, the choice is there on dab. There was some research done a while ago, it was independent from rajar, radio 2 is apparently the most popular radio station, said alot of people were still listening to radio 2 on fm, think it was a few years ago on the radiotoday website stuffy. Anyway I kind of do suspect most people are using fm for a wireless audio connection.
