My roommate got the Sirius Satellite Radio for Christmas and I was skeptical at first about how robust it really was. Even though you pay for a service that is uncensored, Howard Stern is the big name on the service. We decided to hook up the FM transmitting home dock and here’s what we came up with.
There was a car dock and a home dock that you can get with the Sportster tuner. Each came with it’s own antenna and since we are on the east coast we had to point the antenna in the West, Northwest direction. The satellite seems to be right over the midwest. Once we got the home dock hooked up and plugged the transmitter in, we were in business. We tuned our alarm clocks and surround sound system to 90.7 FM and VOILA! we have radio. We were both surprised at the fact that the signal came through so clear in the house. It was quite fantastic.
All in all, my roommate loves his satellite radio and you can add up to 4 radios onto each account for 6.99/month. That’s not bad. Or you can pay a year’s worth of radio for $146. Or if you want to get the whole enchilada, it’s 499.99 for for life! Whatever you choose, there will be Howard Stern 24/7. Pretty cool gift if you ask me.
Blair Says:
January 10th, 2006 at 4:14 pmVisit Blair
It still seems a bit pricey. It seems like we gotta pay for everything thses days. What happened to free? On the other hand, you do get better quality tv and radio nowadays. I just hope this whole paying for videogames thing doesn’t catch on too much. Screw that bullshit! I allready paid to much already for the game, now i gotta pay a monthly fee to play the damn game? At least offer a equally deep offline game people!