sirius radio ??

[w6pea]

I had someone tell me one time that I "had the finesse of a Bull in a China Closet" I wonder what they meant,

A little visual aid might help :-laf

Imagine a few of these
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Running through this kind of retail store :-laf
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Hey I resemble that remark. ROFLMAO :-laf

 

[Dogpatch]

So Ram has XM receivers?

Mine is a 2015 and it does. Apparently all do of a certain era truck. It must have been pre negotiated by XM.

Too bad. XM reception SUCKS!!! in the north.

 

[photowrite]

The reason you notice a difference is before the merger Sirius was the service FCA used for all vehicles. After the merger FCA offered Sirius and XM service on different vehicle lines (or different radios) so on one vehicle you had Sirius, but another you got XM service. On all the literature it makes it sound like Sirius/XM is one in the same, but in reality it is two different services with two different satellites. The Sirius satellite is more overhead in the northern hemisphere, the XM is more toward the equator. So you will notice a lot more drop outs if you have XM (RAx radios in the Ram) and less if you have the old Sirius service on a different radio platform.

Though I do have some interruptions (buildings, forests, underpasses), I'm mostly happy with my SAT radio service (particularly for a discounted price of around $100). I'm guessing a have a "Sirius" and not "XM" radio? This appears hard to confirm, even after several web searches I didn't find a place to confirm, do you know Sag?

My 2014 model year 2500 was made in Dec 2013, and the radio ID starts with "QBWxxxxx", is that a Sirius model?

Thanks,

James

 

[dfb]

I guess I'm in the minority here....I've never been much of an audiophile......but the 8.4 unit in my truck sounds outstanding, best of all the vehicles I have ever owned. The sat radio works great here on the left coast. For 80-90 bucks a year, I don't have to mess with play lists, my phone, or a ipod thingy, or listen to very many commercials.

Sam

Ditto here and hear..

 

[Mingoglia]

FWIW, my 2008 Jeep SRT8 with MyGig was terrible. Would cut out on the smallest underpass. My '14 Durango 8.4an is pretty excellent. My '15 Ram 8.4an is pretty excellent, but slightly less than the Durango. I believe the difference between the Durango and Ram is the Durango has a shark fin which has more surface area, but that's a theory not backed by anything other than theory.

 

[Jones2014]

I guess I have been lucky with My 2014 CCSB Cummins , It has had exactly the same reception as my 2004 Duramax and pretty much every Cadillac , Buick , Suburban , Lexus I have owned in all the years since XM was introduced . I in the past have only had XM radio not Sirius like we have now . I only loose signal in a few narrow canyons on the Oregon coast or behind a steep mountain cliff pretty much what I have always come to expect with a satellite radio. The 8.4 Radio in mine is outstanding which i really appreciates as my hearing is not what it used to be .

 

[jhenderson]

I got a message on my 5.0 XM yesterday that said No Signal Contact your Dealer. I called and left a message but within a few hrs I went to leave work and the XM was back in service. When the dealer returned my call they had no explaination. Anybody know what happened?

 

[Dogpatch]

The leaf fell off your antennae and the crappy XM module decided to pick up a Satelite signal again. LOL

Sorry, I hate XM up here and had to say that. I'm always losing signal.

 

[mwilson]

I got a message on my 5.0 XM yesterday that said No Signal Contact your Dealer. I called and left a message but within a few hrs I went to leave work and the XM was back in service. When the dealer returned my call they had no explaination. Anybody know what happened?

The State of Rhode Island might have temporarily slipped into another dimension where Hillary was President and she had traded off the XM / Sirius satellite to the Russians in an e-mail on her private server??? Then the universe came to its senses...... and "Shazam", all order was restored.....and the radio began to play again........

OR you were teleported into a Steven King novel and were supposed to stop Lee Harvey Oswald instead of screwing with your radio......

Probably better than anything that the Dealer will tell you....:-laf

 

[w6pea]

The leaf fell off your antennae and the crappy XM module decided to pick up a Satelite signal again. LOL

Sorry, I hate XM up here and had to say that. I'm always losing signal.

That's more than likely what happened.

 

[jhenderson]

If you've been following the news, Rhode Island probably shut down my SXM until I pay the toll they plan on imposing on my entertainment. A couple of years ago they floated the idea of taxing strippers. Our pols really do live on another planet.

 

[mwilson]

Now how many "pole tax" jokes did that create?

 

[photowrite]

Drove from Nevada to Eugene, Oregon, today and had good reception almost the whole trip (in our TDI), better than usual for the same route. Just one section where the trees are tall, thick, and the road narrow did it start cutting out and I turned it off for about a half hour.

 

[Dogpatch]

I have XM.

I was sitting in the open and a Dragonfly flew over my truck.

I lost reception as it blocked the Satelite.

I hate XM.

Did I mention I hate XM?

 

[Mingoglia]

Let's all step back from the computer a moment and remember back to the days when we were growing up where we'd lose all radio signal for long durations of time during road trips.... or could only tune in Spanish stations. This is particularly true for those of us who lived out in the big expansive west.

 

[jhenderson]

A few years ago I had to go to Colebrook NH for a skidder tire
. 2 things stick in my memory. It was -34 degrees and for the last 50 miles all I could get was 1 Canadian radio station. Made me wish I paid more attention to my French speaking mother in law.

 

[Berrigan]

OK, so I have had Sirius in my trucks now since it came out, all Dodge/Ram 2500's
been living in same place, driving same roads
I NOW have a 2016,(2500) and I loose connection in places I never used to
and its winter time now, NO leaves on tree's(which would effect older trucks at times)

SO< has anyone else with a new truck noticed this??
as I doubt there is anything that can be done, but???
thought I would ask here!

I don't know if this was discussed in this thread yet but I have some info. Evidently T Mobile cell towers are interfering with Sirius radio systems. The problem will only happen when you are very close to a T mobile cell tower. They are battling out who needs to pay for a fix. I drive 40 miles round trip to and from work. In that commute I loose Sirius 4 or five times in the same spots every day. So I started looking around for cell towers. Sure enough there is a tower within a stone throw of every spot I loose signal. When I drive through the mountains out of the city and cell towers I go for hundreds of miles and never loose the signal.

 

[SnoKing]

I think is more to do with the fact that the newer trucks has XM sat radios vs the older ones that Sirius as Dogpatch pointed out! SNOKING

 

[mrbb]

I have been having a lot of issue's with losing signal in wide open places, no towers in sight
as a fact I was driving across western PA< going east on RT 80, and I totally LOST sirius, so much to the point the option on the screen went bye bye, , just lost signal, then lost all signs of me even having it on my touch screen, I called them while driving on there 800 number, they ran a test and NOTHING< they then said I needed to pull over, shut truck off, and OPEN a door for 2 minutes while they reset things LOL
and that worked, but I still loose signal for as far as I can tell NO reason, in so many places I never lost signal in my 06 or 04 dodge 2500

so, honestly NOT happy, but I am told NOTHING can be done so??
sad when tech goes backwards and cost us more to have??

 

[SnoKing]

I have been having a lot of issue's with losing signal in wide open places, no towers in sight
as a fact I was driving across western PA< going east on RT 80, and I totally LOST sirius, so much to the point the option on the screen went bye bye, , just lost signal, then lost all signs of me even having it on my touch screen, I called them while driving on there 800 number, they ran a test and NOTHING< they then said I needed to pull over, shut truck off, and OPEN a door for 2 minutes while they reset things LOL
and that worked, but I still loose signal for as far as I can tell NO reason, in so many places I never lost signal in my 06 or 04 dodge 2500

so, honestly NOT happy, but I am told NOTHING can be done so??
sad when tech goes backwards and cost us more to have??

Were you in extreme weather when this happened? SNOKING