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CM Cool Manchu Member PDX Joined: Aug 03, 2003 Posts: 564	CM Cool Manchu Posted posted on Fri, Jun 10, 2005 3:11 PM Aloha DonHoNYC, Well if you are considering buying a satellite radio, let me give you my candid opinion: You will need to buy a radio as you noted. But I hear you can pick one up for around 50 bucks (including the 50 dollar mail-in rebate) It costs around 9 to 11 dollars a month (Sirius is 11, XM is 9) I chose Sirius because XM is Clear Channel. You can buy a lifetime subscription for around 500 bucks from Sirius, I don't know if XM offers this. I bought a package deal from Costco, it included the in car kit and a boom box. However, if I knew that the boom box wouldn't work in my house, I would have never bought the whole package and stuck with the car kit. The car kit has an FM transponder, but I found that I constantly had to change the stations because of interference from local stations. I ended up buying one of the cassette adapter kits and it took care of the problem, but it was $23 more of an investment. You can listen to Sirius through your computer. It's not the greatest quaility, but 'taint bad neither. I always have something to listen to. I love the selections. Sirius has tons of rock stations and 80s stations. I wish that they had a better selection of lounge music. They have Mojo Nixon, Joan Jett and many others as DJs. I really dig Mojo's show. :) Since the FCC doesn't have the ability to regulate satellite radio, you can hear the full length versions of songs unedited. They don't play commericials on most of the music stations. Also, a couple of weeks ago, they played the entire side one of Rush's 2112. When do you hear that on the radio? And while I hear Dude Looks like a Lady much too frequently, they do play many other songs you don't hear often on regular radio. Sticking with Aerosmith, I have heard Uncle Salty, Mama Kin, Toys in the Attic, Adam's Apple, Kings and Queens and so on....so they do have diversity. However, they seem to have a rotation that they stick with for a week or two before they change it, so you will hear Golden Earring - Radar Love almost every day if you are in the car, or Hocus Pocus by Focus.... The satellite drops out momentarily if you are driving in the city due to tall buildings and it also drops out if you are driving through heavily wooded areas (this pisses me off). If I had to do it all over again, I wouldn't buy the boombox, but I definately would still buy the satellite radio. [ Edited by: Cool Manchu on 2005-06-10 15:14 ]

Aloha DonHoNYC,

Well if you are considering buying a satellite radio, let me give you my candid opinion:

You will need to buy a radio as you noted. But I hear you can pick one up for around 50 bucks (including the 50 dollar mail-in rebate)
It costs around 9 to 11 dollars a month (Sirius is 11, XM is 9) I chose Sirius because XM is Clear Channel. You can buy a lifetime subscription for around 500 bucks from Sirius, I don't know if XM offers this.
I bought a package deal from Costco, it included the in car kit and a boom box. However, if I knew that the boom box wouldn't work in my house, I would have never bought the whole package and stuck with the car kit.
The car kit has an FM transponder, but I found that I constantly had to change the stations because of interference from local stations. I ended up buying one of the cassette adapter kits and it took care of the problem, but it was $23 more of an investment.
You can listen to Sirius through your computer. It's not the greatest quaility, but 'taint bad neither.
I always have something to listen to. I love the selections. Sirius has tons of rock stations and 80s stations. I wish that they had a better selection of lounge music.
They have Mojo Nixon, Joan Jett and many others as DJs. I really dig Mojo's show. :)
Since the FCC doesn't have the ability to regulate satellite radio, you can hear the full length versions of songs unedited. They don't play commericials on most of the music stations. Also, a couple of weeks ago, they played the entire side one of Rush's 2112. When do you hear that on the radio? And while I hear Dude Looks like a Lady much too frequently, they do play many other songs you don't hear often on regular radio. Sticking with Aerosmith, I have heard Uncle Salty, Mama Kin, Toys in the Attic, Adam's Apple, Kings and Queens and so on....so they do have diversity. However, they seem to have a rotation that they stick with for a week or two before they change it, so you will hear Golden Earring - Radar Love almost every day if you are in the car, or Hocus Pocus by Focus....
The satellite drops out momentarily if you are driving in the city due to tall buildings and it also drops out if you are driving through heavily wooded areas (this pisses me off).
If I had to do it all over again, I wouldn't buy the boombox, but I definately would still buy the satellite radio.

[ Edited by: Cool Manchu on 2005-06-10 15:14 ]

Post #165011 by Cool Manchu on Fri, Jun 10, 2005 3:11 PM