rkhalona wrote:
John S. wrote:

In fact we were in a car. The lost signals were so frequent that we
switched to regular radio, and found the music we were looking for.
They will have to stabilize reception and improve the selections before

paid satellite radio is of any interest to me.

You were not a "cooperative user" (to use a term coined during the
development
of early mobile satellite systems. Your experience would have been
radically different
if you had had a clear line of sight to the satellite(s).

RK

Well, yes I can be "not cooperative" and even downright cranky when an
over-hyped improvement doesn't work as advertised. Satellite radio
seems to suffer from the same shortcomings that satellite phones
suffered. Once users actually have to work with the new radio (or
phone) then the shortcomings become clear. For those of us with access
to a reasonable number of FM & AM radio stations satellite radio is
largely a redundant and expensive toy. I suppose it could be useful
out on a flat and relatively treeless open road, but so would a folder
of good cd's.