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What do ya'll think of XM ?

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SailFisher
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Initially Posted - 05/03/2002 : 15:49:58

What do ya'll think of XM radio ? I know ours is old, I think it's an eight-track. We need a new one. We don't like CD's.

SailFisher "Catalyst"
1982 C25 STD,FK

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jm
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Response Posted - 05/09/2002 : 09:16:48

Bleeding edge, big Corporate radio, and I you have to pay ?

Nah.. It'll never fly, unless they bundle it with a TV/ phone/ Internet/radio/GPS satellite, all in one service provider. Then you might not notice the individual cost - is there a US consumer base ready to pay for commerical free radio ? (unlike we Canadians' who cough up a few tax dollars to fund the CBC - but it's worth it !)

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OJ
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Response Posted - 05/09/2002 : 10:53:36

Could someone explain what "XM" radio is? International capabilities? If it's been around since eight-tracks, I'm feeling pretty out-of-the-loop right now! I think feel a little something pulling on my leg.

Sincerely yours,
GenXer

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Bristle
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Response Posted - 05/09/2002 : 11:24:39

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Could someone explain what "XM" radio is? International capabilities? If it's been around since eight-tracks, I'm feeling pretty out-of-the-loop right now! I think feel a little something pulling on my leg.
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Nope--you'll see them offered in some new car models next Fall. You subscribe to the service and receive a signal (from satellites, I think) with a huge number of channels. That gives you a wide choice of programming anywhere in the country--unlike AM/FM in Tennessee! I don't know how the signal is received--can't imagine a dish on the trunk lid. The market is unproven, to say the least.

Dave Bristle, 1985 C-25 SR-FK #5032 "Passage" in CT

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Champipple
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Response Posted - 05/09/2002 : 13:35:15

Sailfisher...

1...What about cassettes?
2. What about regular radio?
3. Take up the harmonica...

Just out of curiosity, why don't you like CD's??

Duane Wolff
"The Flying Wasp"
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Chief Measurer C-25/250 national Org.
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teamwike
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Response Posted - 05/09/2002 : 16:47:23

Try www.xmradio.com
Max

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dlucier
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Response Posted - 05/09/2002 : 17:40:40

"Could someone explain what "XM" radio is?" -GenXer

Basically it's "cable" radio without the cable.

Don Lucier, Northstar
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Brooke Willson
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Response Posted - 05/15/2002 : 13:00:41

From some pics I've seen, the XM antenna isn't a dish. . . it's a small trapezoidal fixture. The apparent attraction is that one can listen to the same station all the way across the country at FM quality.

I don't have a stereo on "Even Chance." I listen to the wind and the water and the people on the boat with me. If I want music or news I take a little boombox. There are few things more obnoxious than some other boat blasting its music at me either on the water or at the dock, especially if it is the massively talentless, endlessly repetitive, and dreadfully ubiquitous Jimmy Buffet.

Brooke

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Bristle
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Response Posted - 05/15/2002 : 17:00:56

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...especially if it is the massively talentless, endlessly repetitive, and dreadfully ubiquitous Jimmy Buffet.
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Uh-ohhhhhhh... The search engines are gonna pick that up and our little forum will get crushed! <img src=icon_smile_shock.gif border=0 align=middle> (Remember, we even have a "Wasted Aweigh" in the membership.)

Dave Bristle, 1985 C-25 SR-FK #5032 "Passage" in CT

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dlucier
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Response Posted - 05/15/2002 : 18:08:01

"There are few things more obnoxious than some other boat blasting its music...especially if it is the massively talentless, endlessly repetitive, and dreadfully ubiquitous Jimmy Buffet." - Brooke

I can think of "thousands" of things more obnoxious than hearing a Jimmy Buffet tune. <img src=icon_smile_cool.gif border=0 align=middle>

Don Lucier, Northstar
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coldducks
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Response Posted - 05/15/2002 : 18:21:57

don, AMEN, to that!!!!!

COLDDUCKS
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Derek Crawford
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Response Posted - 05/15/2002 : 19:23:55

Amen from me too! But I do enjoy the peace & quiet of sailing. It seems it's those stinkpotters who pollute with noise - both music played WAY too loud and their engines....
Derek

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