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Nuvi 660 FM Transmitter feature
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| sierra 2006-12-18, 7:33 am |
| The Nuvi 660 FM Transmitter feature is currently only available in the
U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand according to the Garmin
website. Given that UK law (EU law?) now allows these to be used, is
there a software upgrade to update existing units, or would it require
physical alteration by Garmin?
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| "sierra" <cfhughes@hotmail.com> wrote:
> The Nuvi 660 FM Transmitter feature is currently only available in the
> U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand according to the Garmin
> website. Given that UK law (EU law?) now allows these to be used, is
> there a software upgrade to update existing units, or would it require
> physical alteration by Garmin?
And what good if UK doesn't have the frequency? Or I don't think it would
stop UK citizent to enjoy *if* UK government or some company in UK provides
the service.
IOW, FM is FM as long as there is a frequency then it should be able to
pick up just like all FM frequencies (I am just guessing).
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| Mikael Mortensen 2006-12-18, 10:33 am |
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"sierra" <cfhughes@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> The Nuvi 660 FM Transmitter feature is currently only available in the
> U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand according to the Garmin
> website. Given that UK law (EU law?) now allows these to be used, is
> there a software upgrade to update existing units, or would it require
> physical alteration by Garmin?
The FM-transmitter is physical not in the model, and it can not be
installed.
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/Mikael
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"Joel" <Joel@NoSpam.plz> wrote in message
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> "sierra" <cfhughes@hotmail.com> wrote:
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Extract from http://www.pocketgpsworld.com
Somebody else asked a similar quesstion..
It seems like the FM Transmitter is not present in the UK/Euro Unit
After much back and forth between UK/US Tech support, they have reported
that the FM Board is missing from the Euro units (More likely it has been
disabled by a hardware joint). They confirmed there is no plans to enable it
and no way to enable it if using in a location where its legal.
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If Garmin has the feature disabled then it's a different story that I
didn't know. And if Garmin does then I guess it's UK law (?).
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