Your project is not worth the time and money just to keep the radio. Heck, I spend enough time just trying to get the EMPEG Tuner installed behind the actual Empeg in the dash!

As was said before, you can download all sorts of talk radio shows (NPR?) and play them on your Empeg. Although not fully advocating it here, there is a program for this (search my posts).

On a side note, I just had a heck of a time troubleshooting a battery problem on my M3 where the water level was low in the battery and since the voltage kept dropping below 11.5 volts, it kept cutting off my Xtant amp. Optima battery here I come!!!

Good luck,
Wes
1995 M3