I received a reply from Walter Hess of Eton to my query if the Eton E1
XM will have IBOC capability. The answer, in a word, is no. No IBOC,
no DAB, no WorldSpace, no DRM. Not even Sirius. AM, FM, SW, and XM
satellite (subscription) only.

Personally I think this is a mistake in what looks otherwise to be a
very interesting new receiver.

Lawrence

"Lawrence H. Bulk" wrote in message
om...
I received a reply from Walter Hess of Eton to my query if the Eton E1
XM will have IBOC capability. The answer, in a word, is no. No IBOC,
no DAB, no WorldSpace, no DRM. Not even Sirius. AM, FM, SW, and XM
satellite (subscription) only.

Personally I think this is a mistake in what looks otherwise to be a
very interesting new receiver.

Lawrence

I find the whole concept of that receiver to be flawed.

Subscribe to XM radio for $8.00 (?) per month and get glorious
digital-quality MONAURAL sound? No thanks.

It would have made a LOT more sense if they had added a matching "satellite"
speaker.

-- Stinger

It would be even better if they actually made the radio...



"Stinger" wrote in message
...

"Lawrence H. Bulk" wrote in message
om...
I received a reply from Walter Hess of Eton to my query if the Eton E1
XM will have IBOC capability. The answer, in a word, is no. No IBOC,
no DAB, no WorldSpace, no DRM. Not even Sirius. AM, FM, SW, and XM
satellite (subscription) only.

Personally I think this is a mistake in what looks otherwise to be a
very interesting new receiver.

Lawrence

I find the whole concept of that receiver to be flawed.

Subscribe to XM radio for $8.00 (?) per month and get glorious
digital-quality MONAURAL sound? No thanks.

It would have made a LOT more sense if they had added a matching
"satellite"
speaker.

-- Stinger

LOL! How true!

-- Stinger

"Jim Hackett" wrote in message
k.net...
It would be even better if they actually made the radio...



"Stinger" wrote in message
...

"Lawrence H. Bulk" wrote in message
om...
I received a reply from Walter Hess of Eton to my query if the Eton E1
XM will have IBOC capability. The answer, in a word, is no. No IBOC,
no DAB, no WorldSpace, no DRM. Not even Sirius. AM, FM, SW, and XM
satellite (subscription) only.

Personally I think this is a mistake in what looks otherwise to be a
very interesting new receiver.

Lawrence

I find the whole concept of that receiver to be flawed.

Subscribe to XM radio for $8.00 (?) per month and get glorious
digital-quality MONAURAL sound? No thanks.

It would have made a LOT more sense if they had added a matching
"satellite"
speaker.

-- Stinger

"Jim Hackett" wrote in message nk.net...
I find the whole concept of that receiver to be flawed.

A real portable MW/FM/SW receiver with THREE MW/SW bandwidths,
selectable-sideband sync detector, PASSBAND offset tuning, separate
bass and treble controls, etc. etc., and you say the whole concept of
the receiver is flawed? Personally, I don't care about paying for
satellite radio. My main interest is in the MW/FM/SW bands which this
set might excell in. AND, designed by R.L. Drake. The only flaw I
see in the design is that they should have left OUT satellite
reception altogether. I would have kept it MW/FM/SW and made sure it
was the BEST portable available on these bands.

GA,

"The only flaw I see in the design is that they should
have left OUT satellite reception altogether."

I believe that the marketing scheme of XM Satellite Radio
has them provide a small fee to the manufacture of each
radio for each monthly subscriber.

So for each Eton E1 XM Radio that subscribes to XM Satellite
Radio per month.


XM Satellite Radio will send the ETON Corp. a Check.

Creating a Passive 'recurring' Residual Income after the
original sale of the radio. A second income source as
a result of the initial saqle of the radio.


jm2cw ~ RHF
..
..
= = = (Gary) wrote in message
= = = . com...
"Jim Hackett" wrote in message nk.net...
I find the whole concept of that receiver to be flawed.

A real portable MW/FM/SW receiver with THREE MW/SW bandwidths,
selectable-sideband sync detector, PASSBAND offset tuning, separate
bass and treble controls, etc. etc., and you say the whole concept of
the receiver is flawed? Personally, I don't care about paying for
satellite radio. My main interest is in the MW/FM/SW bands which this
set might excell in. AND, designed by R.L. Drake. The only flaw I
see in the design is that they should have left OUT satellite
reception altogether. I would have kept it MW/FM/SW and made sure it
was the BEST portable available on these bands.
..

I never said that---------------"I find the whole concept of that receiver
to be flawed."



"RHF" wrote in message
om...
GA,

"The only flaw I see in the design is that they should
have left OUT satellite reception altogether."

I believe that the marketing scheme of XM Satellite Radio
has them provide a small fee to the manufacture of each
radio for each monthly subscriber.

So for each Eton E1 XM Radio that subscribes to XM Satellite
Radio per month.


XM Satellite Radio will send the ETON Corp. a Check.

Creating a Passive 'recurring' Residual Income after the
original sale of the radio. A second income source as
a result of the initial saqle of the radio.


jm2cw ~ RHF
.
.
= = = (Gary) wrote in message
= = = . com...
"Jim Hackett" wrote in message
nk.net...
I find the whole concept of that receiver to be flawed.

A real portable MW/FM/SW receiver with THREE MW/SW bandwidths,
selectable-sideband sync detector, PASSBAND offset tuning, separate
bass and treble controls, etc. etc., and you say the whole concept of
the receiver is flawed? Personally, I don't care about paying for
satellite radio. My main interest is in the MW/FM/SW bands which this
set might excell in. AND, designed by R.L. Drake. The only flaw I
see in the design is that they should have left OUT satellite
reception altogether. I would have kept it MW/FM/SW and made sure it
was the BEST portable available on these bands.
.

Stinger wrote:
Subscribe to XM radio for $8.00 (?) per month and get glorious
digital-quality MONAURAL sound? No thanks.
-- Stinger

I get excellent stereo through my XM radio. What are you looking at?

--
Brian Denley
http://home.comcast.net/~b.denley/index.html

Brian Denley wrote:

Stinger wrote:

Subscribe to XM radio for $8.00 (?) per month and get glorious
digital-quality MONAURAL sound? No thanks.
-- Stinger


I get excellent stereo through my XM radio. What are you looking at?


The Eton radio this thread is about is apparently monaural.

"Brian Denley" wrote in message
news:j6lic.11130$0u6.1984116@attbi_s03...
Stinger wrote:
Subscribe to XM radio for $8.00 (?) per month and get glorious
digital-quality MONAURAL sound? No thanks.
-- Stinger

I get excellent stereo through my XM radio. What are you looking at?

--
Brian Denley
http://home.comcast.net/~b.denley/index.html


Brian,

My next vehicle will have SatRadio, too. I wasn't putting that down at
all -- just the RADIO in question. The problem I have with the Eton E1 XM
radio? -- it only has ONE speaker!

Sure, I know you can do the "computer speakers in the headphone jack"
routine, but seeing as how the Sat800 is so huge, it does seem like the
precedent is set for large, so they could have put one of their
great-sounding speakers on each end of a larger box.

-- Stinger