Siriusly frusterating

A video of typical Sirius radio reception from my office window which faces due west, in eastern Mesa Arizona. I love Sirius in the car where it works very well, unfortunatley I don't drive 100% of the time!

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• Sirius
• radio
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• service
• unreliable
• frusterating
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• opinion

[rainbowbritekicksazz]

Stop listening to that drawn out shit first -

dont expect the antenna on the boombox to be good enough INDOORS ,you need an outdoor antenna!

unless u live by a repeater ,you can look in the signal streanth meny look for TER for terrestrial ,aim the antenna for the highest bars!

[sean2me]

Yes, if you would have read the comments you would see that I DO NOT have satellite signal from that window. The satellites are confined to the North East quadrant. My window faces due West! Therefore I only have a terrestrial signal. I had it at another employers building where it worked great on terrestrial only. So read before posting please!!!!! Geeeezuz!

[jdailey4206966]

Now, the stiletto is upwards of $200 and you can buy the boombox for it, which is nice cause it also works as a charger. If you wanna spend the money, it will be well worth it, mainly if your office has wi-fi, because it streams live feed through that and doesnt need the satellite signal, until you get away from your wi-fi signal. Like I said, I got a new radio, the stratus is simple, no big features, got the car and home kit, and boombox. No complaints at all! Signal everywhere

[sean2me]

I wish we had Wi-Fi at the office, that would be excellent! Actually they take it a step further and deny us access to parts of the web (naughty sites, outside email, video, pictures, etc....) I am going to wait for a bit while they get their act together. It never pays to be an early adopter!

[jdailey4206966]

Like I said though, the transmitter was awesome, but couldnt get signals in alot of places. My new radio, the transmitter sucks, but can get 3 bars in places i was always getting the "aquiring signal" box coming up. I know a guy who has the sportster and had the same problem, and believe it or not, he bought an extra car antenna, and uses that on his boombox and says it is amazing! I think they could better design the antennas. Hopefully with the merger, more sturdy equipment will come!

[sean2me]

I do have much hope for the merger. Hope for better equipment! It's been a while since I last looked, but do they still not have a radio you can walk around and listen to live streaming broadcasts? I always thought that was strange that they did not have that. Of course my unit gets so hot, obviously their radios require a lot of energy....

[rocketman5989]

always keep the sirius in your fukin car, nimrod. i do.

[smpfox]

first, good song, second, no idea on your problem but i assume you got it fixed by now.

[w1104717]

i use the stiletto and no issues.

[darkscarlet82]

Problem is having antenna indoors. Anyone who knows anything about satellite signals will tell you it has to be installed outside where signal is clear just like satellite for television would not work indoors. Just good sense.

[BarFAN21]

i'm very serious about sirius satellite radio

[rattyextreme]

north east

[funboy0420]

Should have never merged into one company at all. It was better when they where two companies from the beginning. HELLO, its called FREEDOM to choose whats better. Just like your cell phone and carrier. Dont like them, then move to someone else. Sirius radio does have some bad areas of reception but a lot of things could cause the minor disruption. Walls, antenna, tunnels, underpasses, etc. Cant always except 100% unless u have wifi in ur car and is always connected.

[ezequielr77]

the proper antenna aiming in arizona is to the north or northwest...

[civic2004racer]

Ridiculous

[ctloomis45140]

Wow you must have the standard antenna. I'm an OTR Trucker and I bought the upgraded antenna and it works wonderfully. Might want to think about spending the $50 and getting the antenna. Its much better. Less dropped signal. Just as in anywhere you have trees or hills you will get a dropped signal . It cant be perfect everywhere. Land radio is the same way. I will never give up my sirius radio. Little to no dropped signal unless I'm in a tunnel or the smokeys.