David wrote:

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 15:10:27 GMT, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:

David wrote:

You sound like my Dad, about 5 years before he got cable TV.

So I'm supposed to pay for something I won't use? The only thing I
would ever listen to on Sirius is WSM and I am listening to it right now
on the computer. I spent what Sirius would cost along with a second
phone line and dial up internet to get broadband internet and basic
cable service for the same price. I only spend a couple hours a month
in my truck and a few more at the grocery store or doctor's office.
Please explain the logic of your statement.


You need to spend more time listening to the radio. It'll improve
your disposition.


Actually, I enjoy building and repairing the radios more then
listening to them these days. I have severe tinitus so I have to have
the volume quite high to listen to fading signals. I loved to sit up
all night and listen to international broadcast when i was a teenager,
but that was a long time ago. Still, you haven't explained why I should
subscribe to a service I don't need, or want. I looked at both XM and
Sirius and I wasn't impressed by either. As far as Satellite radio, I
built a C-band satellite system 15 years ago to listen to the radio
stations carried a SCPC or subcarrier on the TV satellites. Have you
ever built a radio and had the joy of hearing that first far away
signal? How about the pure satisfaction of building a commercial
station and transmitting the first signal? Or have you only opened a
box and turned on someone else's idea of a radio? In other words, there
is nothing wrong with my disposition, just that you want me to do things
your way and it just won't happen.

As far as new technology? I've worked on and built commercial radios
you'll probably never see. Some of them will be used to track the
recently announced space probe to Pluto. I learned to solder at eight
when I built my first radio kit. I was hooked. At 13 I was working
part time in a radio and TV shop repairing radios to make money to buy
tools to build more radios.

--
Former professional electron wrangler.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida