I love Sirius radio. When I first heard about it, my reaction was "Who would pay for radio?" Then my wife got me one for Christmas a couple years ago and now I can't imagine not having it.
I haven't tried to use mine indoors. I'd guess you have to rig up an antenna outdoors or pointed out a window with a line of sight to the satellite. Also, I'm not sure how portable they are outside the car. I use mine only in the car with a hard-wired antenna. I've heard that the reception for the models you place on the dash with their own built-in antenna isn't as good, but I don't have any first-hand experience. I know they're not really designed to be walk-around devices like portable FM radios, and I don't think they work well without a direct line of sight to the satellite. I've read that in some big cities they have ground repeaters that might help with using a radio indoors. My radio has the ability to save songs and then detach the device and listen to saved songs like an MP3 player. Lately, they've been hyping a new device designed to provide in-house access to Sirius content through a broadband Internet connection, so that may be an indication that using the satellite radios themselves indoors doesn't work well. All that aside, the content is great, especially if you're in your car for 2-3 hours a day. You can buy them at all the usual electronic outlets. Sirius sells the hardware directly and sometimes they offer some pretty good deals. On 8/22/07, Jim Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well sort of. 2 reasons.... still kind of a pain finding what YOU want to > here if you are not interested in the pop 100 stuff. And because it is hard > to find what you might not have heard yet and not the force feed garbage > well I am usually listening to the same stinking songs/groups. So I am > paying to much for a limited amount of portable music as I see it. > > So I am now thinking Sirius. It solves music and FOOTBALL! :) because I > usually get NFL field pass to listen to my favorite out of town team. But I > need to keep it to about the same budget. I'm thinking that I can get 2 > radio thingies for mine and my wife's car and one of them can be > portable/house use too. No? So I would need one account and one additional > add on account thing right? Where would be the best place to acquire these > objects? Thanks.
