Hi John;

Yes, I purchased the SKYFI equipment.

I am just glad I didn't sell my SIRIUS equipment.

I use the AUDIOVOX equipment for SIRIUS and, I have no problem with it at
all.

73 De Anthony W2AJV
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----- Original Message -----
From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 8:59 PM
Subject: Re: XM SATELLITE RADIO EQUIPMENT!!!


> Well, main thing I want XM for is the NASCAR channel/s and if there's old
> time radio I'd probably listen to that too, I don't believe in weather
> forecasts at all so I could do with out weather channels at all, too bad
> the
> cable company won't listen to me on that one, but I'll definitely keep it
> in
> mind. I'll probably try it out and see what I think, a question though
> what
> equipment did you get? Was it the equipment offer you sent me the link to?
> maybe I'll try something else in that department, it's not as cheap but
> the
> XM site has a lot of stuff there, maybe I'll add to my Sony collection.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Anthony Vece" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 8:13 PM
> Subject: Re: XM SATELLITE RADIO EQUIPMENT!!!
>
>
>> Hi John;
>>
>> I found that as long as the antenna can see the sky, I always receive a
>> signal.
>>
>> Now for the bad news.
>>
>> I returned the XM SATELLITE radio equipment.
>>
>> Anyway, the compression is not expandable.
>>
>> What this means is that while the music may have cd quality, its cd
>> quality
>> from the late 80's.
>>
>> The life is squeezed right out of the music.
>>
>> Also, the traffic channels I believe are computer voices.
>>
>> And, XM offers one weather channel.  On the other hand SIRIUS offers
>> three
>> weather channels.
>