more radio insanity

[Brett Dikeman]

The new remote for the receiver comes today.  Pop it open...what the?
It's got a little gizmo to plug into the back of the radio, and the
remote has all these funky buttons for nav functions.

Phil, I now have a remote for -your- radio :-)

I plug it in anyway and try it.  Nothing.  Hmm.  Go back inside.  I
eye the old remote, sitting in its box ready to go back to
Crutchfield.

I grab it, go back to the car. Turn on the radio.  Press the source
switch.  Click.  FM.  Click.  CD.

All functions work perfectly; the "new" "correct" remote is in fact
the wrong one, but it appears I -do- need the IR receiver that came
with the new unit.

So, now, the "wrong" unit has to go back or the new(also wrong) unit
does, along with the little transceiver which came with it.

Aaarrrg.  Well, we'll see what Crutchfield says.

This remote is nifty; volume, source, preset scan and station
scan(when in radio mode), skip back/forward and forward/back
track(CD), and so on...all from your right thumb.  Can't hear the
instructor in turn 2 at Lime Rock?  No prob.  Click click.  He/she
doesn't like classic rock and prefers -classical-?  Click. :-)

The other little goodie was the aux source adapter; one setting in
the radio's soft menu switches 3 contacts on the back from being part
of the changer interface to independent operation; hit CDC(or tap SRC
on the remote) and boom, you've got your laptop/mp3
player/walkman/XM/whatever.

As for the remote being useless in the UK etc, ha!  The nav remote
allows, from what I can tell, full use of the nav features.  "OK", 4
directional arrows, and an assortment of pictogram-marked buttons;
one looks like a "I'm hitting traffic" button(triangle with !),
another looks like a flip-the-route-backwards(U turn arrow), a third
looks like a "info" button

   Even better than audi's goofy little knob thing on the center
console; no hands have to leave the wheel.


Now to sort out the last speaker that needs fixing, and the
mysterious ground loop problem...

B
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