Sirius Radio

[OUPilot]

Anyone tried the new Sirius Stiletto (portable) in the cockpit? Just curious if it works well, or not at all. Please don't turn this into a debate about listening to music in the cockpit. All of the people who listen to music, great, all of the people who don't, great.

 

[HAL]

I don't know about the Sirius products, but I flew with a Captain at America West who used his XM2go receiver in the cockpit all the time and he never had a problem getting a signal. He just put the antenna on whichever side window faced south and got a good signal.

I actually had an XM radio receivier on my Christmas list... until I found out that you can't get a signal from them or Sirius in Hawaii. :angryfire Since that is where I spend half my time anyway, it wasn't worth it.

HAL

 

[Wankel7]

http://www.dogstarradios.com/sirasasecoma.html

Looks you should be good to roll...after all you are closer to the satellites than you are in your honda

 

[flywest]

Flown with a guy a couple of times that has a Sirius portable. Should be no problem.

 

[JimNtexas]

XM is a far better technical solution to delivery of satellite radio. XM satellites are huge and powerful spaceships in geosychronous orbit, while Sirius satellites are low powered cheapo things, flying in half-assed Molniya orbits.

But since only Sirius has Radio Margaritaville no thinking person would consider any service other than Sirius.

 

[Jet Blast]

It works...

One of our guys uses it with no problem. Of course, we only fly within the continental US. I do not know about hawaii. I should have put that on my wish list

Not to change the subject but does anybody have any trouble with the 30/60/80 Ipods in UNPRESSURIZED a/c above 14,000 ? Mine freezes and stops working above 13,000

 

[Sunnfun]

Not to change the subject but does anybody have any trouble with the 30/60/80 Ipods in UNPRESSURIZED a/c above 14,000 ? Mine freezes and stops working above 13,000

Quote from Apple.com:

Environmental requirements
Operating temperature: 32° to 95° F (0° to 35° C)
Non operating temperature: -4° to 113° F (-20° to 45° C)
Relative humidity: 5% to 95% noncondensing
Maximum operating altitude: 10,000 feet (3000 m)

This is due to the hard drives, they don't like thin air... The iPod Nanos should be better due to the fact that they use flash memory (i.e. no moving parts).

Hope that helps.

Sun'n Fun

 

[I Hate Freight]

Quote from Apple.com:
Maximum operating altitude: 10,000 feet (3000 m)

If this is for environmental reasons and not reception then it probably means pressure altitude and not altitude above sea level. If so, most planes cabin altitude rarely gets to 10,000. At 370, our cabin is about 7700 feet.

 

[Wankel7]

If this is for environmental reasons and not reception then it probably means pressure altitude and not altitude above sea level. If so, most planes cabin altitude rarely gets to 10,000. At 370, our cabin is about 7700 feet.

Reception...its an Ipod...

Wait...are they tracking us via ipods ....

 

[Sunnfun]

If this is for environmental reasons and not reception then it probably means pressure altitude and not altitude above sea level. If so, most planes cabin altitude rarely gets to 10,000. At 370, our cabin is about 7700 feet.

Read his post again. He was asking about unpressurized planes.

 

[I Hate Freight]

Read his post again. He was asking about unpressurized planes.

Ahh, right you are. Sorry.

 

[flyinacez]

Sirius

My Stiletto is moody, some days it works perfect and some it's in and out with the signal. You can store up to 100 hours, so I just record Stern and about 10 hrs of music everyday and listen to recorded stuff hassle free. Shop around, I got mine on Ebay for $270 and it included a free car kit coupon. Sirius advertises for about $349

 

[Way2Broke]

The stiletto is junk. Buy the S50 and wait for technology to improve.

 

[chperplt]

I bought an S50 last week. I love it!! $79 at Best Buy..

 

[gulf227]

I bought the first XM portable reciever. It wasn't very portable. Sure it fit in your pocket, but then you had to had a reciever clipped on your sleeve. Worked fine in the cockpit as long as I was the one facing south, otherwise not so much. Didn't work at all in the back. Worked fine as long as I carried the the car antenna, not what I wanted to do, so I returned it and got an ipod, and a cord to plug into the xcm mic jack. Works great!

 

[OUPilot]

yeah, i returned mine and bought a sportster 4 for use in the car. it works great. i bought the home kit to use at home also.