On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 11:08:57 -0800, running dogg wrote:


How much do you pay for XM and Sirius? Isn't it something like
$15-20/mo, in addition to a receiver that costs a few hundred bucks? Why
should I pay $200 or so a year just to get the BBCWS, when I can buy a
$50 Degen and listen to it without subscription costs? Even if I have to
listen to it from the Asian stream, I still save money. Not all of us
have gobs of cash. Even Ace, who has gobs of cash, prefers to spend his
money in more productive ways than giving it to XM and Sirius. XM and
Sirius are mostly music, 12 channels each of every variant of every type
of music you can imagine. I don't listen to much music, and 12 channels
of right wing talk doesn't appeal to me, so I'd be paying money to
listen to something I can get for free with a $50 radio. I suppose David
Rickets likes throwing money away. I can't afford to.

The radios start at $50 (or less, even). The initial subscription is
$13 a month (about the cost of one compact disc, which you will tire
of in a few hours).

I used to listen to the Singapore relay from around 3:30 AM until
around 7:30 AM (Pacific Time). Other than that, there's no BBC left
out here. On the satellite it's alway there, noise free, and I can
concentrate on the content.