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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