A wireless audio transmission apparatus and method for coupling audio
players to audio receivers for broadcast of audio signals stored in and
processed by the audio player. A housing carrying operative circuitry is
electrically connected by a multiconductor cable to an audio player for
receiving stereo channel signals. Band pass filters couple the stereo
signal and signal ground conductors in the cable to the stereo encoder in
the housing. The filtered stereo signals are received by a stereo encoder
in the housing and modulated onto a radio frequency carrier signal. A
transmitter coupled to an antenna carried in the cable wirelessly
transmits the carrier signal and the audio signals to a remote radio
frequency receiver for demodulation and broadcast of the audio signals.
Preferably, the carrier signal is an FM radio frequency signal. The
carrier signal is optionally selectable from a plurality of different
carrier signal frequencies. In an optional aspect, the operative
circuitry in the housing may be embedded directly in an audio player.