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Old 09-16-2006, 06:48 PM   #37
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The radioshark is junk. Period.

I got mine on the 9th from BestBuy online. My carpc is on my bench tweaking so I plugged it in to the USB just to test. Did I just say junk? I meant to say CRAP.

Even the installer is crap. It fakes a test to the internet to see if there is newer software and then says it is the latest and continues to install. But, if you go to their web site, there is a newer version. Says it improves AM reception. Yeah, THAT'S what I'm looking for! AM Baby!

Nope, even that didn't help.

So I leave it plugged in so I can look at the gay blue LEDs for a while. I get up in the morning and see that they are not blue anymore. Turns out it fried itself just sitting there and the CarPC then reported an overload on the USB port so it shut the port down. Wonderful, it is gay -AND- it tried to f#*k my CarPC!

Back to BestBuy with this sorry POS and I got my money back.

Guess I'll just have to keep looking or find one of those HQCT boxes.

John
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