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Item 189: The Satellite Radio item..........

Entered by eprom on Sat Mar 26 03:29:41 2005:

Ok...its been a few years since XM and Sirius came out and had time
to mature a little bit.

They have seem to come down in price too. I was just a wal-mart and
noticed that you can buy the main unit, antenna, and power adapter
for all under $100.

Discuss.
4 responses total.
#1 of 4 by eprom on Sat Mar 26 03:43:05 2005:

Kalamazoo blows as far as commercial radio stations go.

There is some wierd fusion/acid jazz on the local NPR
station late at night, but no smooth jazz station.

I've really like how our cable service has alot of diverse
music from Big Band to Salsa, but it's not portable. So a
$10 subscription is worth it for me.

There is also, old time radio and some cable news feeds 
(CNBC, CNN, etc).

#2 of 4 by eprom on Tue Mar 29 21:59:18 2005:

I went out yesterday and bought the XM skyfi and home mounting kit...I'm
listening to it right now. Its great!

There is a Audio Book channel (ch 163). And 'Voice of music at starbucks' 
channel (ch 75) which plays alot of more obscure music.

here's the full channel listing:
http://www.xmradio.com/programming/full_channel_listing.jsp?sort=number

#3 of 4 by krj on Sat May 7 16:02:27 2005:

STeve's car has XM, so when he drives to work I get to play with
the satellite radio a bit.  Munkey has reminded me to listen to 
channel 100, which is one of the world music channels.

#4 of 4 by steve on Mon May 9 02:28:39 2005:

   The really cool thing about XM radio is that the people on the
various channels are really experts in their feild.  About 10 minutes
of listening to #110, the classical music channel, I hear Martin
Goldsmith of NPR's Performance Today.  I just recently heard the
former NPR person for ancient music talking about it on XM, and a
jazz person over on the contempary jazz channel.

   I'm a little worried that XM is going to continue to raise
prices and make it less attractive, but right now its a pretty
good buy.  I'm happy with it.  I don't think there are many
forms of music that aren't covered on XM.

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