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08-03-2004, 07:37 PM
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Check out Link or Link for more info than you need about xm radio, installations and service.
I recently bought an '04 Accord V6 6speed with xm radio...we like it so much I had to buy a roady for my wife's car to keep her from trading cars. We got the old model Roady just before the Roady2 came out. It works great using a cassette tape adapter. You can also use an fm modulator, which is built in to the Roady2, but I'm told the sound quality is not quite as good as with the tape adatper. You can also buy an adapter that lets you do a direct connection if your head unit has a cd changer connector.
I recently bought an '04 Accord V6 6speed with xm radio...we like it so much I had to buy a roady for my wife's car to keep her from trading cars. We got the old model Roady just before the Roady2 came out. It works great using a cassette tape adapter. You can also use an fm modulator, which is built in to the Roady2, but I'm told the sound quality is not quite as good as with the tape adatper. You can also buy an adapter that lets you do a direct connection if your head unit has a cd changer connector.
08-03-2004, 07:50 PM
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Also check out this link
http://www.myrateplan.com/satellite/radio.php
It compares XM with siris the competition. I went with XM as it had more subscribers, was in earlier was less expensive to suscribe and I thought at the time had more channels devoted to classical music. The joke is I don't use it much in the car but listen 6+ hours to it at work at my bench and also listen at home. I have a MP3 changer in the car and continusly burn disks. I think it is great, you will have to decide which way you want to use it. If only in the car then a HU that controls a receiver is the way to go. Otherwise a seperate unit like the Delphi you showed can easly be moved from home to car to work. BTW the antenna works really well in the "secret cpmpartment".
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http://www.myrateplan.com/satellite/radio.php
It compares XM with siris the competition. I went with XM as it had more subscribers, was in earlier was less expensive to suscribe and I thought at the time had more channels devoted to classical music. The joke is I don't use it much in the car but listen 6+ hours to it at work at my bench and also listen at home. I have a MP3 changer in the car and continusly burn disks. I think it is great, you will have to decide which way you want to use it. If only in the car then a HU that controls a receiver is the way to go. Otherwise a seperate unit like the Delphi you showed can easly be moved from home to car to work. BTW the antenna works really well in the "secret cpmpartment".
Andy
08-03-2004, 08:04 PM
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I forgot to add, as you have a US car you don't have a cassett player. The antenna modulator is suposed to have better quality then the cassett but the best way with the stock HU is to get one of the addaptors that go into the stock UH through the CD changer port. As I replaced mint I didn't have to go that route.
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08-03-2004, 08:35 PM
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the best way is a direct connection to the aux-in/cd changer port
next is a WIRED FM modulator...this plugs into the antenna port
next is cassete
worst is a wireless FM modulator
the roady2 has the wireless modulator, but delphi has a wired FM modulator that both modulates FM and powers the roady (so you don't need the lighter socket block).
I have the roady in my S with the wired FM modulator. It's pretty small; i powered it with the FM lead for the stereo and shoved it behind the dash. I affixed the roady to the radio door with adhesive. the roady comes with a bracket; i can easily remove it from my car and into my house.
the roady is the only mobile xm/sirius thingie that really fits in the S. there is also the XM Commander which has a small control box but is car only.
next is a WIRED FM modulator...this plugs into the antenna port
next is cassete
worst is a wireless FM modulator
the roady2 has the wireless modulator, but delphi has a wired FM modulator that both modulates FM and powers the roady (so you don't need the lighter socket block).
I have the roady in my S with the wired FM modulator. It's pretty small; i powered it with the FM lead for the stereo and shoved it behind the dash. I affixed the roady to the radio door with adhesive. the roady comes with a bracket; i can easily remove it from my car and into my house.
the roady is the only mobile xm/sirius thingie that really fits in the S. there is also the XM Commander which has a small control box but is car only.
08-04-2004, 12:17 PM
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We have a thread running about it in Vintage. You might want to check it out.
https://www.s2ki.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=221093
https://www.s2ki.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=221093
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08-05-2004, 12:57 PM
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XM uses S-Band radio waves. the AM/FM antenna on your car is tuned for the 600KHz-108Mhz of AM/FM radio.
Most "XM Ready" radios sold have no tuner; they can only display data and change stations. The box you have to buy is the actual tuner...the radio controls it and displays its data, but the radio doesn't have the "guts" needed to tune XM. XM has 3 separate channels (2 satellites, one ground), and a processor compares them and plays the appropriate channel...that's what the box does.
Now, Alpine, shown above, now has a radio with the xm tuner. you still need an antenna as the XM S-Band antenna is tuned differently than conventional radio.
that a good explanation?
Most "XM Ready" radios sold have no tuner; they can only display data and change stations. The box you have to buy is the actual tuner...the radio controls it and displays its data, but the radio doesn't have the "guts" needed to tune XM. XM has 3 separate channels (2 satellites, one ground), and a processor compares them and plays the appropriate channel...that's what the box does.
Now, Alpine, shown above, now has a radio with the xm tuner. you still need an antenna as the XM S-Band antenna is tuned differently than conventional radio.
that a good explanation?
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