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Anyone have satellite radio?

proteon

proteon

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Last year I bought a few shares in SIRIUS and I'm at the point where I'd like to hear WTF is going on up there; particulary the impending launch of the Howard Stern endeavor. I've looked at the units and they all look exactly the godamn same and I'm not sure I understand how they work - it's like they have built in FM broadcasters to send to an FM frequency...

Does anyone have any first hand experience with either XM or SIRIUS?

You can lie if you like how the fuck would I know.
 
Yeah.

Maybe Chardarnook was right - my only purpose on these forums is to keep valkilmer's dick bumped.
 
The only experience I have with Satellite radio is listening to the SIRIUS unit that was in the Chrysler 300C I rented last March, in Florida. I travelled from Tampa to St. Pete to Clearwater with nary an interruption of signal, which was excellent. When my son gets older (and we have another kid) we'll be taking driving vacations, so I'll look into getting a satellite radio then. I might wait until 2008, when we trade in our '03 CR-V, because most new cars should have satellite installed by then.
 
Thanks BDM. I am curious to the sound quality and it's consistence (or lack thereof) of this thing for the money involved - I want to know if I can expect cell phone like reception or FM dial or CD. I agree in a few years they will all have satellite radios in them.
 
Clarity was excellent. The signal didn't fade out even though we travelled a pretty fair distance. The SIRIUS in the rental car was a restricted version that only had about 1/2 the regular channels, and I was still overwhelmed by the choices. If you drive a lot, or have any kind of long commute, satellite radio is well worth it, in my limited opinion.
 
It turns out that pretty much all Radio companies produce a version of both SIRIUS and XM receivers - I want one that can dock both at home and in the car but I'm still having a fuck of a time trying to discern whether a) these things receive the satellite signal then broadcast it through to an FM received which is built in or b) they receive the signal then broadcast to an EXTERNAL FM receiver which you provide. That's good news about the clarity - we've joked that if we have to stand in the yard and hold our arms up aka cell phone reception, it's not going to be worth the coin.
 
As far as I know, it's an external receiver. There's a little magnetized satellite receiver that clamps to the rear roof of the car. That's the "receiver" if you will. The "filter", that is, the device which separates the satellite signals into different "radio stations" is mounted somewhere on your dashboard (unless it's part of the OEM radio). That's how XM works, at any rate, as Darthsikle has one in his Audi that's set up like that. He would be the one to PM to ask, actually.
 
Sirius comes with DishNetwork. I like it, but I only have home reception, and only the music channels, nothing else.

There's supposed to be some new receiver that is basically like an iPod--it has 50 hours of MP3 storage, receives all of the Sirius stations, and can either plug into a car stereo or into your home stereo. I had an email with a link in it, but I must've deleted it. See what you can find at the Sirius.com store.
 
Alright I think I'm learning how these fuckers work. You buy the Radio itself which can be made by various companies but you can't play them without a docking station. They have home units and car units and boom boxes which apparently you stick your radio (sold separately) into. It'd be nice to be able to see these fucking things in person.
 
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