You can get a complete XM setup for 12 Volts for $113.. It has a
cassette adapter and a line-out jack that plugs into any AUX input.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage....type=pr oduct

You can get a complete Sirius system for $50 right now.

http://www.sirius.com/servlet/Conten...=1077744929995

Use this email address as your ''friend'':

"Clayton Joseph"

XM has really good music and really mediocre News and Talk.

Sirius has terrible music but really good News and Talk, including
World Radio Network (the future of International Broadcasting).

I still like to DX on my shortwaves, but for content the satellite
radio is richer.


On Sat, 20 Mar 2004 14:30:52 GMT, "Jim Douglas"
wrote:

Interesting! My son recently purchased stock in the satellite radio cause
there seems to be a sense
that the FCC won't be monitoring and enforcing their rules there. Could it
be that all the noise about
FCC enforcement would cause XM to become the next FM? Is FM going the way of
AM?

My question, who has satellite radio? What are the costs involved? Is it
worth it?
"S R" wrote in message
...
I was wondering because of all of the trouble picking up signals with the
natural environment were in, could it be possible that satellites
shortwave
satellites solved this problem? While still being a wireless radio
signal?

About a year ago I thought about XM radio. And I thought to myself if it
would ever carry shortwave stations?
And their is the Internet way to access radio? But it is not as fun
listening to radio through the Internet. You have to start up your PC,
the
log on, then search for what you want to hear and it might not be live.

I guess for a city person as myself, I dream to someday live up on a
mountain and have the whole horizon to listen to.

73

Because of the cost of satellites, and the fact that they must be overhead,
they will not take the place of shortwave for a long time. Satellite receivers,
even though they are very small, are costly. But, here in north america you
can try XM or Sirrius. They have lots of channels. Not exactly the variety
of shortwave radio though.

"S R" wrote in message ...
I was wondering because of all of the trouble picking up signals with the
natural environment were in, could it be possible that satellites shortwave
satellites solved this problem? While still being a wireless radio signal?