I switched from Sirius to XM and the reception has never been better.

73 De Anthony W2AJV
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From: "Buddy Brannan" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2005 5:01 PM
Subject: Re: satolite radio


> You'll need the home docking kit for your Sirius radio, and then it's
> very easy to connect to your home stereo system. If you don't have
> the home docking kit, you'll need to get one if you want to connect
> to your home stereo or powered speakers.
>
> Yes, I thought the same thing--that paying for something you should
> get free was ridiculous. But the content is much better, and fewer
> commercials is a good thing. Really, you can't go wrong with either
> system, but it seems to me that, because of how the Sirius satellites
> orbit, you may (as I have) have more problems with antenna placement
> using Sirius, especially if your city (like mine) doesn't have
> ground repeater stations. XM's satellites are geosynchronous, so once
> you get a signal, it stays there; Sirius has three satellits, and,
> theoretically, when one goes out of range, another comes up, but I
> have had some outages, though admittedly not many, with Sirius.
>
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