New Sirius Customer

[bcshields]

--Mods, if you want to move this, I'll understand. I figure until there's a Satellite Radio Forum opened, either Dish or General is where it goes.--

I just installed my own Sirius Satellite Radio!! Heard it on Dish, listened to the 3 day trial on their website and decided to go for it.

Knowing nothing about how to install it, I had some trial and error. My first purchase was at Walmart (GF gets a discount) and I bought their Jensen unit for around $140. It came with everything I needed.. reciever, antenna, mount and all applicable wires. My problem was that I figured i needed an FM modulator to tune it to my stock radio... and I thought it was a different piece of equipment, so I returned the whole thing. (Come to find out it was built into the reciever base.)

So i say "heck with it" and decided to get a retailer to install it. I call 4 of them, and all 4 had different prices (all over $220), and all 4 had no way to install it by Memorial Day. So I check Sirius' website, and see that Circuit City has them available.. A 30 mile drive later I'm in the store talking with a salesman.

By The way, GREAT DEAL at Circuit City, get the reciever and car kit, <b>get either a home kit or second car kit free! </B> For about $150 bucks, that's not a bad deal.

It was easy to install, suction cup mounted to my winshield, wires hidden, power connected to the ciggarette lighter (Saturn Ion's have 2), and all done in about 2 hours.. after trying to hide all the wires right.

WELL WORTH IT!

[Jackm]

A great site for a lot of help with Sirius, everything from installation to music and programming is
www.siriusbackstage.com

Thought it might be some help.

[metroboi]

Yes, siriusbackstage is a great site. It is what convinced me to go with a Brix Streamer last fall.

[bcshields]

I've been lost there for a few days... reading and reading. Didja know they had 3 satellites in a elliptical figure 8 orbit over N. America instead of being geosycrinous like DBS?

Neato... I love new toys.

[SimpleSimon]

I've been lost there for a few days... reading and reading. Didja know they had 3 satellites in a elliptical figure 8 orbit over N. America instead of being geosycrinous like DBS?

Neato... I love new toys.

Wow. How the heck does that work?

[korsjs]

does anyone know the pricing/deal for dish customers? i am not to worried about having it in my car. i would like to use it at work and at home hooked up to a receiver.

[bcshields]

Here's the thread i learned about it:
http://www.siriusbackstage.com/forum...pic.php?t=9753

Here's the science:
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/phys...niyaOrbit.html




It's funky to deal with.. I put my home antenna out my window, worked one minute, not the next.

[SimpleSimon]

Here's the thread i learned about it:
http://www.siriusbackstage.com/forum...pic.php?t=9753

Here's the science:
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/phys...niyaOrbit.html




It's funky to deal with.. I put my home antenna out my window, worked one minute, not the next.

Cool! Thanks!

[snathanb]

That's like that low-orbit satellite phone service that never took off worked. Dang, what was that called again? Anyway, I think they had something to the order of 60 low-orbit non-geosynced sats.

Iridium.... I knew if I thought about it long enough... they have 66 different low orbit satellites.

[SimpleSimon]

That's like that low-orbit satellite phone service that never took off worked. Dang, what was that called again? Anyway, I think they had something to the order of 60 low-orbit non-geosynced sats.

Iridium.... I knew if I thought about it long enough... they have 66 different low orbit satellites.

Yeah - that was something. Original company went bankrupt, and someone else bought up the satellites for less than a penny on the dollar. I always wondered if something kinky hadn't gone on there.

http://www.heavens-above.com/iridiumdemise.asp

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/iridium-00g.html