At least one other person has asked about dangling a tuner from the rear -- he's sent me his tuner "extension cable" (included with factory tuners) to chop up for the purpose.

To do it yourself, you'll need some extra pins for the docking connector.

And eventually I'll have to add "tuner ID" detection into Hijack as a method for distinguishing between docked and car modes, since when a tuner is plugged in Hijack won't be able to use the "tuner loopback" test for detecting the dock.

Factory tuners have a small dial on the exterior to set the "tuner ID"; Patrick's new tuners have a pair of jumper pins on the logic board for the same purpose. The idea is to use one "Tuner ID" for the tuner in the car, and a different one for the docking station, and then tell Hijack (not implemented yet) which ID means "dock".

Cheers