XM Satellite Radio!!

[Frodo 0]

This is so cool! $100 receiver (the orange thingy) + $70 home kit + $10/month. 68 music channels, commercial-free (I think they used to be ALMOST ads-free, but now it's 100%), and a bunch of news, comedy, traffic etc. channels (which do have ads).

Anyone else got this piece of global communications? I just love this kind of hitech - satellite radio, GPS, even music streaming from the web. That's just amazing stuff imho
I'm wondering if any of you have used the Sirius, which is analogous to XM, only it does have commercials.

[skybytch 273]

I wish I'd had XM a couple weeks ago when I was driving from California to Florida. There's this one section of the 10 through Texas that has exactly two radio stations, both of which suck.

[FallRate 0]

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There's this one section of the 10 through Texas that has exactly two radio stations, both of which suck.

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FallRate

[BikerBabe 0]

We have Sirius, and it soooo worth the extra few $$$ a month to not have any commercials.

I love love love it! Corporate radio sucks.

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[hipgnosis 0]

Personally I listen to http://www.live365.com all the time at home and work (streaming internet music, everything you can imagine), and do the MP3 thing on the road.

The best is just recording the live365 streams and dumping them right to a CD-R for playback in the truck, works wonderful and you get hours upon hours of commercial free music


Hipgnosis

[Luna 0]

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I'm wondering if any of you have used the Sirius, which is analogous to XM, only it does have commercials.

Actually, it does NOT have commercials, and didn't well before XM. News stations, etc. do, but I think a lot of those are feeds and beyond their control. We picked Sirius because we were more impressed with the channel lineup they had over XM. It's $12.95 a month, but we got the lifetime subscription so it doesn't matter. Absolutely love satellite radio!

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[pack40 0]

Who needs satellite radio?
I have just bought
a far better radio:

R-326 "Rustle"

-Designed in the 60s!
-Comes with tubes.
-No digital thingies.
-Made in CCCP for the Soviet Army.
-From 1 to 20 mHz (AM, CW, SSB)
-Oopps it is only 12kg (26 pounds)

That is a radio, I hear stations from far far places:
Various HAMs, Israeli Broadcasts, Russian Merchant Marine, VOLMETs and long range aeronautical stuff,
SPY stuff.

OK I am just happy to see a radio related post at Dropzone.

What you bought is that the same XM system that you can have in new cars built-in? (At least in US)

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SA-WEEEEET!

D'ya still get Voice of America on a CCCP kit or were the frequncies banned???

-Dave

my shortwaves are all just 'normal' 30's home radio sets. I swear I heard a live signal from 'Good Morning Viet-Nam' one day...

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[cloudseeker2001 0]

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I wish I'd had XM a couple weeks ago when I was driving from California to Florida. There's this one section of the 10 through Texas that has exactly two radio stations, both of which suck.

HAHA! From Van Horn to Sonora!

"Some call it heavenly in it's brilliance,
others mean and rueful of the western dream"

[champu 1]

although not very impressive with it's other statistics (4V preouts/mp3 support would be nice) Alpine has started making head units with built-in XM tuners so you just need the antenna and not a seperate tuner box in the trunk

[Frodo 0]

K, here's a question: what exactly does it mean when an in-car CD-player is "XM Ready"?

[BlindBrick 0]

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K, here's a question: what exactly does it mean when an in-car CD-player is "XM Ready"?

Basically an XM system comes in three parts: an antenna, a receiver box, and a control unit. "XM Ready" decks have a built in XM control interface and thus you only need to get the XM antenna and receiver box.

-Blind

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[skygazer 0]

I've got in in my Mustang...it's great.

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[pleifer 0]

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Personally I listen to http://www.live365.com all the time at home and work (streaming internet music, everything you can imagine), and do the MP3 thing on the road.

The best is just recording the live365 streams and dumping them right to a CD-R for playback in the truck, works wonderful and you get hours upon hours of commercial free music


Hipgnosis

all right any body know how to do this....
I have an mp3 cd player in my truck and would llooovvveeeee to be able to do this......

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[SkymonkeyONE 4]

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K, here's a question: what exactly does it mean when an in-car CD-player is "XM Ready"?

It means one of two things:

-your head unit can accept the signal right from the antenna and thus, maintain the digital signal. Pioneer makes a relatively inexpensive XM capable reciever.

-or that it has the XM guts built into it and you only need activate the paid service. You can get units such as this on pretty much any vehicle GM makes.


If you use an RF modulator then you are going to lose your digital signal, but you will still have much better sound than any cassette or radio. This form of XM plugs in between your regular FM antenna and your stock head unit. You tune your FM radio to a preset station and hit the on button on your XM reciever to get it to work. Most people who have added XM as an aftermarket option use this version. If you have a separate controller, then that's generally exactly what you are doing.

Chuck