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Hi all, first post, so take it easy on me :D

I just recently bought a 95 r33 gtst...the smile hasn't been wiped from my face yet.

Now it has a 2 din kenwood head unit installed in the car....unfortunatly its a japanese version :P it plays cd's perfectly, has MD built in to the slide down panel, stacker capability and can pick up ONE radio station, woohoo.

My two questions are:

1> can anything be done to the system to make it pick up aussie frequencies? Can I install a seperate 'thing' or something that bypasses the head units tuner and uses another way to pick up stations. i have no idea as you can see hehe

2> I have no idea how to get access to the multitude of functions of the head unit as it all scrolls across the LCD in japanese :| (altho i can get a image of a race car scrolling hehe nice) , and pressing random buttons just results in the thing beeping at me hehe. Can i somehow get acess to some sort of instructions?

the unit is a Kenwood DPX - 910MD. Doing a google internet search just resulted in about 8 pages of matches all in another language that i can't read hehe

I haven't really had much of a play with it, as i only got it friday, and i spent all day today remodling my garage to fit two cars in it. My other baby (03 Subaru RX Liberty) had to spend the night out on the footpath :)

btw, its seems i will pick up some nice tips from these forums, good job on all the help to other forumers!!!! hopefully someone can help me out a little

cheers

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hippy Grand Master

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see if u can find a manual online ... then just follow instructions ... that would be your best bet ... or find a japanese friend :P .. other than that u can get a frequency shifter from jaycar or autobarn or somewhere ... other than that u can get a new deck :)

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1. Band Expander... There are different ranges available for the different frequencies used throughout the world... Mine is shit. Only lets me pick up about 5 extra stations but it was a cheapie.... Get a good one and you will be happier. You can also get them custom designed for the radio stations you want to listen to as all band expanders will have dead spots by design... But thats expensive.

2. What the guys above said. If Fhrx don't know then no one does :P Have you tried altavistas babelfish to translate the results you get in google? It can sometimes help to shed some light. Maybe try and find out if there was an english equivalent made and track down the instructions for that... The buttons should perform the same functions I reckon.

3. Get a MD recorder.. My Head Unit came from Japan with MD cababilities so I purchased a MD recorder off these forums and I love MD to bits... Very convenient, light and portable and great for MP3's, compilations, etc. It also has major wow factor. Most people have no idea what it is in Australia (or all the people who have noticed mine are dumb sh1ts :) ) I think there is one for sale in the "For Sale Other" forum at the moment...

4. Welcome! Your gunna love your new car and this place will be like a second home for you.

5. Where in Queensland?

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thanks guys for the replies.

i knew there was some sort of equipment out there to broaden the frequency range...just didn't know what it was called.

I didn't really want to get rid of the head unit is it looks smick as (i worked out it was around $2000 worth :( )....you could play with the motorised front panel all day LOL!

its also got the graphic equaliser too if i can work out what buttons do what that would be great.

from the results i found on the web, what i could make out was that it was just japanese guys listing what equipment they have in their cars....i couldn't make much out on the japan kenwood site, but i'll have a play around with online translaters.

can you actually get copies of the manuals online?? because i couldn't find any after i read hippy's reply.

a MD recorder is on my shopping list as well :)

i live and work out at Toowoomba (so thats about 3 hrs from the G. Coast)

thanks again, i will be investigating more now that i know the name of the critters.

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