David Eduardo wrote:
"D Peter Maus" wrote in message
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David Eduardo wrote:
"D Peter Maus" wrote in message
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That sounds like the one I bought. It goes with me everywhere. And I
rarely have a signal outage....except for under bridges in rural areas.

Everywhere I go, I can listen to what I enjoy via satellite.


Glendale, CA, in hilly area... no signal at all.. La Quinta, CA to Palm
Desert (my bicycle route) spotty signal, dropouts at least twice in any 5
minute time in motion. Prescott, AZ, no signal at all in area I live.
Waste of $300-.
Really. I"m not familiar with Ca reception, but I have a colleague in
Prescott who listens to the same XM channels I do, on the same radio, a
first generation MyFi.


I had an XM Eno (it went the way of the dumpster) and in the Hassayampa area
of Prescott, there is no signal anywhere. I am pretty convinced at this
point that the portables need to be near terrestrial repeaters and can't
really see the satellites.



Well, that simply isn't true. Now, they do often need an external
antenna...the built-in can be pretty limited. But if you go into the
menu you can find the antenna aiming page...it will tell you if you're
listening to a repeater or a satellite. I get direct satellite reception
all over the backwater and backwoods locations I travel. And my
colleagues do the same.

I even get reception, indoors, on a MyFi in White Lake, Wisconsin.
Where the nearest repeater is more than 5 hours away.

Sounds like either you got a bad receiver, or you got a bad external
antenna. That does happen. I had a bad portable antenna out of the box.
Once replaced...never a problem. I can mow the lawn listening to Fine
Tuning, without so much as a glitch in the North Woods of Wisconsin.