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The 3-satellite Sirius constellation was shut down years ago. Now it's just the two geostationary satellites. In future years Sirius will be shut down and XM will use all four geostationary satellites, each of which were designed to support the entire bandwidth used by both Sirius and XM.

Waste of time and money. When I renewed my XM sub, I deleted the "All Access" and haven't gone back.

The newest boombox seems to work with both the old Sirius radios and XM radios. I tested it and was pleasantly surprised, though there is no real reason to bother with the Sirius side with its blotchy audio quality. I got it from one of the online stores bundled with a receiver for a little...

Looks like the HEO satellites are done. The date has passed (set in 2008) to decommission them. Sirius FM-5 and FM-6 are co-located with XM-5 and XM-6, respectively. Sirius FM-5 was supposed to hang around 96 degrees but they changed their mind for some reason. Anyone notice a reduction in...

I used to have lots of family plan radios. Now I just have one plug-and-play radio that I carry around wherever I go, and the Internet Smartphone App add-on to use where the satellite signal doesn't work. At home I also use the internet radio on a PC with an FM transmitter for around-the-house...

The Sirius repeaters tuned to a Ku-band transponder on AMC-16 and rebroadcast them. The XM repeaters took two of the four transponders from one (or both) of the XM 85-degree or 115-degree satellite and rebroadcast them. It's arguable to say which system was more elegant, but the XM system was...

The talk stations were moved to really out-of-the-way channel numbers recently. It's a good thing for the XM network to finally get that "up to 410 kbps" of bandwidth back from Clear Channel. I wouldn't be too excited about additional channels unless you have one of the newest radios that...

There may be one of two problems happening: Antenna quality or signal coverage changes. XM and Sirius antennae have linear amplifiers inside them that slowly wear out over time. If you're still under warranty ask the dealer to take a look. If they want to charge money for the repair consider...

I have lots of XM Radios from the golden years of 5 years ago and want to activate one of them for just Opie and Anthony. I'm not sure the "Talk" package includes this channel. Does anyone know the cheapest way to get O&A? Thanks.

I cancelled my XM subscriptions because of the channel consolidation. I had seven radios on two accounts. I lost five different music genres that are simply not available on the Sirius-XM channel line-up in any way. These were on eight different XM channels that were replaced with the Sirius...

XM has done this during the holidays for the past few years. This year is the first time Sirius has done it.

This happens fairly often. Talk Radio, Extreme XM, America's Talk, WLW, and many other talk channels on XM are from Clear Channel and have only barely minimal staff paying attention to them, if at all. CC has a grudge against XM and are keeping their channels live to deny bandwidth from Sirius...

The problem was that XM's library had both radio-edit versions and unedited versions. The Sirius clowns didn't realize this when they merged the two systems together.

There isn't any Trance/Progressive anymore on Sirius XM. XM used to have a Trance/Progressive channel but it is gone for good. Sirius had a channel that occasionally played what they thought was Trance/Progressive but it's more of a variety channel. Unfortunately, the Sirius is the one on Sirius...

Worldspace's Afristar uplink facility in the U.K. has been seized and supposedly shut down. Some listeners report that they are still receiving channels on either this or the other satellite. Details are sketchy. From: Worldspace UK goes bust - Rapid TV News

The buzzy high-end on the lower bitrate channels is greatly reduced. Stereo separation "feels" much wider than before. Instruments that reverb into stereo actually reverb into stereo now. Mid-range is tweaked to sound richer. The sibilance, while still there, does not splatter into left and...

Space Systems/Loral to Build High-Power Satellite for SIRIUS Satellite Radio Space Systems/Loral to Build High-Power Satellite for SIRIUS Satellite Radio: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance

Very similar in concept to this one: Pixel Technologies Professional XM/Sirius Satellite Radio Commercial Amplified Antenna (XMPRO500)

OK, that's all we know, but what kind of satellite technology will be used? Ku-band, especially to a moving vehicle, is really hard to do without hundreds of dollars' worth of equipment (to judge from the RV auto-pointing antennas). I want to know how they're going to accomplish this with a...

I have been fascinated by the new service coming up from Slacker.com. Slacker is a store-and-forward music service which downloads music and playlists for a near-live experience. The data is normally transmitted via the internet but they are coming with a new service called Slacker Satellite...

These new talk stations are using a different bit rate. You can hear the new bit rate on the WLW channel. It's very clear and doesn't have the flanging and artifacting that the other talk channels have. The new settings for WLW and the Clear Channel talk channels are very pleasing to hear...