Hi Don,

It seems that the repeater has a receiver that plugs into the antenna
jack on the radio, so I suppose the repeater could be operating on
just about any frequency.  Maybe the "receiver" part of the repeater
acts like those old UHF to VHF converters they used to use back in
the late '50s when many sets only received channels 2 through 13.

Steve

On Monday 12/19/05 16:50 Don Bishop wrote:
>Hi Steve,
>
>That's pretty much what I figure too, but don't know what bands are
>veally available to xm and probably sirius too for that matter.  I
>assume it must be the
>same frequency allocations used by the repeaters they have in some
>big cities, but don't know those frequency allocations either.  The
>radios must be
>relatively broadbanded.
>
>Don  On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 09:57:28 -0500, Steve Dresser wrote:
>
>Don,
>
>I'm guessing here, but I'll bet the receiver just searches for the
>strongest signal it can find, and the repeater just happens to come
>out on top.  Logically, the repeater can't transmit on anything but
>the frequencies the receiver can receive, and it probably doesn't
>interfere with any of the ground signals because it doesn't radiate
>very far beyond the house.
>
>Steve
>
>On Monday 12/19/05 01:25 Don Bishop wrote:
> >Okay,
>
> >The list unsubscribed me but I'm back now so will send this again
> >before it dumps me again.
>
> >Maybe moving to a different listserv won't be such a bad idea.  <smile>
>
> >Anyway, here's the message below which I tried to send earlier.
>
> >Don
>
>
> >I finally found a description of the repeater.  Does anyone happen
> >to know how the thing works?  Sounds like it picks up the xm signals
> >and retransmits
> >them,
> >but on what frequencies?  And, how does the xm radio know to tune
> >into the repeater rather than the terestrial signal directly?
>
> >Thanks,
>
> >Don W6SMB
>
>
>
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