Satellite radio

[OTRPU]

This is what I have. Have seen it for $49



http://www.crutchfield.com/S-3p78PPNEFRj/cgi-bin/prodview.asp?i=209XM4CLIP



Have seen it at many truck stops, it's also available with a 12 or 18 inch post.



Be Safe,

Steve J.

 

[Firemedic 76]

I will never ever get caught listening to Perry Como and Bing Crosby again going cross country during Christmas with AM only! I Love my Sirrius. I have the Audiovox plug and play and will be ordering the Dodge factory unit to replace it. I do have problems with even small under passes and pulling into a covered atm teller or fueling station. There are several aftermarket antennas that say it will elliminate the problem. I will go as far as installing a permanent marine antenna. I even have a permanent amplfied GPS antenna and it makes all the diffrence in the world. Monthly service,"chump change" for being able to get what you want to suit your needs at the time. I was told coverage is aprox 200-250 miles past the American border. But on a recent trip to Cabo San Lucas Mexico,1200 miles from home I had crystal clear reception and by the way it sounds every bit as good as a CD or any radio station. No commercials on the music but talk radio,news and comedy you will get a few. Still worth every single penny!And i can even listen to on my home computer. Ahh!!

 

[Patriot Diesel]

14 months later and I still love mine... couldn't be without it. Have one in the wifes car now too...

 

[SHobbs]

I prefer Sirius. I was sold on it when they appeared on Dishnet and then I discovered this channel they have called hair nation. I have to admit it I still like those hair bands. The regular stations here are terrible, same thing over and over and yak yak yak. I get hassled by friends over my hair bands, but, I don't care.

 

[Jay]

Sirius here... and also have a docking station and antenna on the 5'vr!

 

[PJereb]

I have Sirius with a Kenwood receiver; I can just pop out the receiver and plug it into my home stereo. It was an easy install; I ran the antenna through the center clearance light. The docking station fit nicely into the dash. Being in my pickup at least two hours a day, I really enjoy the variety of music…. electronica, classic rock, classic country, death metal, whatever I feel like. As for why I chose Sirius, they have more rock and electonica stations, and it seems like Sirius is adding even more stations at a rapid pace.

 

[Turbo Thom]

I've had my XM about 10 months. The one I got stays in the truck. Monday I'm buying the Delphi so I can install one in the truck and transport it to my fiver. My old one will be installed in the wife's truck. How do I like it. I'm stuck on it. I got the 10 disc CD changer, but why. I like the Bluegrass station just fine. Under concrete and heavy foliage on trees. Oh , maybe once and a while. Still the XM is fantastic. $9. 99 a mon.



. . Preston. .

 

[kshimizu]

Anyone buy the Roady 2 yet? My cousin says he likes it way better then his original Roady. Probably going to buy one for my parents pretty soon. I've had my old school Pioneer setup for about 2 1/2 years now and it still works fine for me. No stock tickers or info on what songs are playing on other channels, just the one that looks like an old cd changer control. I love the programming and it keeps getting better.

 

[biggy238]

Stay Away From Modulators!

I can't argue much with anything anyone else has posted other than XM and Sirius are BOTH CD QUALITY unless something is wrong with the equipment/installation.



The easiest way to get into the poor quality situation is with an FM modulator. Even though they have a setting for what station they broadcast on, It's never exactly the station that your tuner recieves. Such as the modulator may use 88. 712 and your reciever gets better reception at 88. 789

Thats how you lose CD quality.



Crutchfield has sweet deals on reciever/sat. tuners that use 8 pin DIN connectors that don't loose sound quality like fm modulators always do.



I have one place locally that I lose my Sirius and it would pretty much have to get a signal through a mountain worth of solid rock.

 

[Big Dawg]

Look Here for some good information:



www.xmorsirius.com



I have a Sirius with the modulator. It sucked big time. I bought the $15 adapter to wire it directly into my antenna (no cutting required) and it is a thousand times better. It's really nice for trips. I hate commercials so satellite radio is good as far as that goes. One thing Sirius does that I hate is that the DJ's will talk over the beginning of a song sometimes. I have never liked this. As far as I'm concerned... fire all of the DJ's and lower the price of the service. Hope this helps.

 

[Ol'TrailDog]

Plumb happy with XM. Had it for around 9 months. Got the Roadie with the free home unit. So I listen at the office where the is NO clear radio reception. I am a conservative talk radio listener, for which they have a pretty decent line up (need to dump Mike Savage imho) except for the weekends. There isn't too many stations to select from around here, so the Christian, bluegrass, and folk stations are a welcome relief to the yelling and screaming which passes for rock music nowadays.



Plus the roady 2 now has a built in FM modulator, sweet.

 

[zman]

I've got Sirius. I got hooked on it after they added it to Dish Network. I love The Vault, Classic Vinyl, Classic Rewind, Jam On, The Spectrum and Buzzsaw. I have several friends that have XM and there's some pretty good stuff on there too. I'm guessing that both have similar music channels, but they do have different sports channels. Your choice depends on what you want to listen to. Sirius also offers a good quality streaming feed via the Internet for free if you are a subscriber (not all non-music channels are available). That comes in pretty handy at work.



Steve

 

[Big Dawg]

Ol' Trail Dog...



You're right about getting rid of Michael Savage... . He's far far to liberal for me! They need to get someone more conservative in there.

 

[RMontoya]

Sirius here

Worth every dollar, I paid 399. 00 for a lifetime subscription (I think it's 499 now). Right around 280, installed professionally. Sold the old unit on E-bay for 108. 00.

So... . for 571. 00 I never have to listen the Bill and Dave morning show anywhere I go, I can get news anytime, anyplace, all the football games, so many music stations that if I ever do get tired of music, I'll listen to the turbo wine a little..... Sure does make longs trips much more enjoyable.

 

[RBSOB]

Antenna Location?

Soon to be picking up our Sirius units, truck and home. NFL package was the clincher for us. We travel mostly on weekends and when my wife, the NFL fan, saw the ads for Sirius, SHE insisted I get it . I intend to install myself and was wondering where on the truck to locate the antenna based on others experience. Thanks for the input guys . Jim G.

 

[PJereb]

If you have clearance lights you should consider running it under the center clearance light, through the headliner, down the A pillar and over to the radio. If not you will have to run it into the 3rd brake light, then through the headliner, and so on.





Peter

 

[RMontoya]

antenna

I had mine mounted on the center of the windshield above the path of the wiper blades, the wire runs inside the top portion of the windshield to the pilar on driver side, then down to floor to the radio.

 

[RMontoya]

antenna

I had mine mounted on the center of the windshield above the path of the wiper blades, the wire runs inside the top portion of the windshield to the pilar on driver side, then down to floor to the radio.

 

[biggy238]

I took it easy and ran the antenna just in front of the third brake light, through it, along the window trim to the trim that runs forward to the top of the door, through the ext. cab fold out window, down the door post trim to the tuner underneither my driver seat. Totally reversible in 5 minutes. Just putting the idea out their for you.

 

[boondock]

I (a girl that likes me a lot) just bought my XM Roady 2 at best buy for $130. What a awesome system. No cassete thing needed. Antenna is tiny and you don't need to mount it on the roof or outside. The directions say to do so but I have not had any problems nor the guy that sold it to me at best buy. So plug it in to you cigarette lighter for power, plug into reciever, pull out antenna plug into receiver. Call the 1800 # talk to someone for about 10 minutes and 5 minutes later you have satellite radio. Also get a free home kit but I have to mail a couple of things off.



I mounted mine to the left of the ash trey. I can see it pretty easy thru the steering wheel. Run cirgarette wires in and out off ash trey, then run antenna up thru the panel and mount on the dash.



That easy!!!! Go get one!! Total cost 130+15 for activation (one time fee)+10 a month!!!