Headunit help needed.

volt9291 · 10 May 2006 at 20:57

I have a Pioneer DEH-P8600MP http://www.pioneer.co.uk/uk/product_detail.jsp?product_id=7528&taxonomy_id=25-121

I got the HU when it first came out and got it for a really good price

Thats becaue it came from Australia !!!

now this i why i have a problem, because its from down under the FM tuner cant pick up uk radio

eg. if the radio station i want is vibe101 which is 100.1 on the tuner, my HU can only goto 100.0 or 100.2 or 100.4 (i think!) if ya get what i mean! ?

so what i want to know is:
Can i change the fm tuner to go up in 1's not 2's?
Is there any way i can change this? some sort of HU update? an adapter of some kind?

Thanks for any help :cool:

volt9291 · 13 May 2006 at 16:55

Nothing i can do then? :confused:

Tobes · 14 May 2006 at 16:14

Wouldn't of thought so. You might even find that you might be breaking the law if you are on a frequency which we would normally be on. I say this because when I owned my iRiver MP3 player you could change the FM country and your warned about the legal implications.

volt9291 · 16 May 2006 at 14:03

Tob3z said:
Wouldn't of thought so. You might even find that you might be breaking the law if you are on a frequency which we would normally be on. I say this because when I owned my iRiver MP3 player you could change the FM country and your warned about the legal implications.

Ok looks like i cant change the steps the frequency tunes in. But wouldnt say i could be breaking the law as i am only receiving not transmitting. How could receiving 1Mhz different be breaking the law :confused:

Corasik · 16 May 2006 at 14:17

It wouldnt be illegal, my home stereo tuner goes can be tuned to 100.05, 100.1 etc... It goes up in 0.05's. Afterall FM radio was designed with analog tuning systems originally. Even modern FM tuners are just analog tuners with digital controls.

Unfortunatly your probably stuck with .2's as the tuner is probably programmed with firmware you cant update.

Its illegal to listen to frequencies your not licenced for, but its no problem listening to the VHF 88-108mhz radio band.

If you wanted to listen to the 27mhz CB band, you would need the appropriate licence, and of course your not allowed to tune in to police bands, but I doubt very much that your tuner will be able to pick up any bands you cannot legally listen to.

For FM just stick within 88-108mhz, and your legal. Its not illegal to own tuners that can pick up illegal frequencies, its only illegal if you actually tune into those frequencies.

Tobes · 16 May 2006 at 14:26

Ahh sorry read your post wrong.

For instance the band we have is 80.00 - 100.00 or something like that. If we were recieving anything like 60.00 then it would be illegal as you could be receiving a frequency which your not athorised to

Corasik · 16 May 2006 at 16:26

One thing which is a little odd, I checked out the Australian VHF channels, and their channels start at 88.1mhz and have a 2mhz between channels, so 88.1, 88.3, 88.5, so it should be tuning in at 100.1, and 100.3 not 100.0 and 100.2

Ok... just googled, for Vibe 101's frequency, and it uses Galaxy's old frequency of 101.0. Seems up here we use any frequency from 88-108, so tuners have steps of 0.1, or sometimes even 0.05 like my tuner. Down under the channels appear to be defined, and are .2 mhz apart.