Radio Satellite Sirius
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Radio
Satellite Sirius?
Radio Satellite Sirius is radio that has commercials
off! and music and programming on!
As you know,
regular radio has to play commercials where sponsors
pay for air time. With Sirius Radio you pay a small
monthly fee and get no commercials with a huge
selection of different types of programming including
sports, news, entertainment radio and music.
A quick rundown gives you...
Over 100 streams (stations) of radio satellite Sirius
61 streams of 100% commercial-free music
Over 40 streams of sports, news and entertainment
Radio is restricted by
distance (around 40-100 miles) and what's
called "line-of-site". Line-of-site has to do with how far one can
see or a signal can travel in a straight line without the view or
signal being obstructed by something like mountains, hills etc.
Have you have experienced the static and signal loss while driving
your car or moving around? Sirius Radio has no such difficulty
since the satellites are in space. This means that there are no
distance or obstruction difficulties. This technology makes it
possible to get digital quality sound and great radio programming
wherever you go.
With the way the
Sirius Satellites are positioned you could drive
coast-to-coast while listening to the same station (signal) and
always have clear listening. Even off our coasts, 200+ miles off
our coasts you get the same clear listening. This is great for the
boat lover. I have to mention here that the same radio you have
at home can be the same one you have in your boat. The Radio Satellite
Sirius system is designed to be portable. Wherever you place a "docking
station" you can use Radio Satellite Sirius.
Docking stations
have been around now for a few years. In electronics "age" this is a
good long time. A docking station is used to "dock" or cradle your lap
top computer or in this case your Sirius Satellite Radio. In other
words, you connect the Sirius Radio unit directly to it. Kind of like
plugging in an extension cord to an outlet. The docking unit is a
stationary case, but the Sirius Radio is portable giving you the
flexibility to plug it in to any docking unit you have for it. This can
be in the living room, the car, boat or the boom box.
Sirius is
located in New York Cities Rockefeller Center. From the studios there
they shoot the over 100 streams of satellite radio to 3 state-of-the-art
satellites that orbit the earth twenty four hours a day seven days a
week, so, you always get music, sports, news, etc., all the time,
anytime.
Radio
Satellite SIRIUS trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker SIRI
Radio
Satellite Sirius accessories and what you'll need.
Plug and Play
units are portable tuners that come with optional home and car kits. Use
them at home, in your office, in a truck, boat or your car. Plug and
play means that you just plug it in and it does the rest. Plug and play
is more and more becoming the standard. Very simple.
Home units
connect directly to your home entertainment system. They contain
features such as song/artist title memory, 4 preset banks with text
input and digital audio output. You can complete your home entertainment
system with SIRIUS.
Headunits (a
small radio unit a little bigger than your hand) work with your current
car radio and is the most popular unit. Once you have a "headunit", all
you need to do is add a SIRIUS tuner and antenna and you're ready to
activate your SIRIUS service. The set can be sold as a package and is
very compact.
Tuners are an
important satellite radio component. If you buy a headunit or FM
Modulator system, you will need a tuner. The tuner brand must be the
same brand as the headunit or FM Modulator system.
The FM Modulator
changes your car radio into a satellite radio and allows you to
listen to SIRIUS without getting a new radio.
The Radio
Satellite Sirius Antenna is a necessity for receiving SIRIUS
satellite radio signals
Subscription Cost
Radio Satellite
Sirius costs are about $10.00 per month with a 1 year subscription and
less for a lifetime subscription. There are also big discounts (like
50%) when you have 2 or more subscriptions. So, you could pay as little
as $6.99 per month per year. Business subscriptions are also available.
Music Catagories
Radio
Satellite Sirius provides Pop, Rock, Country, Hip-Hop, R&B/Urban,
Dance/Electronic, Jazz/Standards, Classical, Latin and World and
branches of these.
Sports,
news and entertainment categories
Radio
Satellite Sirius offers NFL, NBA, NHL, CNBC, CNN, E! Entertainment, BBC
World Service, Radio classics, etc., etc.
The Deal
With the
recommended dealer when you subscribe with an annual plan, you can
get a radio plus 2 docking kits at a big discount. The SIRIUS units are
Plug & Play meaning their easy to move from one docking unit to another
and can go from your car, to your home and everywhere in between.
Choose between
Kenwood, Audiovox, Brix Streamer and JVC radio units. There are other
models to choose from also.
How about
the name? “Sirius” is the brightest star
in the constellation Canis Major and the Northern
Hemisphere. It was named after the ancient Egyptian
god Osirus, who was represented pictographically
as a dog, giving Sirius its more familiar name: the
Dog Star hence the Sirius logo.
Without getting
into the names of the satellites,
their exact positions, etc., which isn't that important
to us anyways you should now have some important
info to help you with understanding Radio Satellite
Sirius. If you feel you need or want more though,
visit the
Satellite Links
page and have at it. You can
always learn more about anything.
Radio-Satellite-Sirius
Copyright 2006
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