XM satellite radio on board

[Captain Josh]

I have the MYFI and it works well most of the time. I use the little portable antenna an sometimes I have to find the sweet spot near the window to make it work. I was thinking of one of the new ones but those run around 300 dollars. The only downside to the MYFI is that the battery only lasts about 5 hours. For those long days it can be a pain to keep charging it if you don't have power in the plane. It really makes the trips better. I listen to the classic country stations and theirs a lot of songs about truckers being away from home on the road haulin hot freight. I can really relate. Its like a music video all day long.

 

[OLD DOG]

I occasionally fly a sr22 with XM. It runs through thr Garmin audio panel and the volume is the same as ATC. I have never lost the signal with the antenna on the panel. It does get a little distracting in busy airspace though.

 

[Way2Broke]

I thought the new Stiletto from Sirius was supposed to finally rival the equiptment of XM. It not only can finally pick up a sat signal and record 100 hrs but if it loses sat signal or can pick up a WiFi it will save the battery and use the web instead.
Anyone buy it yet or better yet try it in the plane yet?

Is there anyone out there that can answer this one for us. I was going to get Sirius for X-mas, because they are getting Nascar next year. What is the difference between the two. No one seems to have anything good to say about the Sirius, and lots of good to say about XM. Elaborate? I am not talking about aircraft units, I am talking about the portable units. Thanks.

 

[JimNtexas]

Sirius has Jimmy Buffet!

 

[JediNein]

Been cross country a few times with XM. They have a LOT of chatter, especially when you just want to hear music. They also seem to have a very short channel list and play the same songs again and again and again. It was the same playlist in January, March, two times in April, and June.

Sirius plays more of the music without the DJs thinking they're god's gift to chat radio. Sirius has a better channel selection and they at least randomize the playlist. Reception seems fine with a portable unit and suction cupped antenna.

As I'm too cheap to pay subscriptions for music, I just blew a hundred (2 month XM subscription) at the "One Cent CD" Store, burned 'em all to MP3, and have a 60 hour playlist on two 2 GB SD cards which plug into my cell phone. No commercials, no blabbermouth DJs, and if I want more music, it's just ten CDs for ten cents and ten bucks shipping. The only drawback? I now have a large coffee coaster and metal frisbee collection.

Fly SAFE!
Jedi Nein

 

[Wankel7]

I have used my Roady2 in the airplane for over a year now. I really love it...it has worked as far north as Calgary and as far south as Puerto Rico and Mexico City. Really helps keep me awake at the odd hours.

I powered it with 6AA that was good for about 5 hours of life with the back light turned off on it. Sometimes I had reception issues but I would just move the antenna around till it worked.

The nice benefit of carrying my XM stuff was when we got a rent car I could hook it up in there and I was good to go on radio. I mainly listen to Alt. rock and harder rock so 48 Squizz on XM is where I stick to.

Wanked

 

[Way2Broke]

Sirius has Jimmy Buffet!

They have Buffet channel....SOLD!

 

[Way2Broke]

I want to buy a boom box for the house, a protable unit I can use in the plane and car as well as listen to whenever I want. I am new to this, can someone tell me what usit would be best, and what boombox would be best? I am trying to keep it under 200. It appears that the "plug and play" units have to be plugged into something. Thus, I can not plug them into the audio pannel, or use them while jogging (not that I do that or anything).

 

[Way2Broke]

So I went to look at the new portable sirius that is aroud 350 dollars (stelleto), and yous till have to buy a car kit, 75 bucks, and a home kit for 69 bucks. That is alot of money. I was under the impression that the older units could be used in the plane, how have you guys been doing this? The stelleto has only been out 4 weeks, and people claim to have been usingthe older unit in the plane for quite some time.