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« on: July 08, 2003, 06:38:18 pm »
So this is one of the cooler things I Have done in a while.  The website ecost.com was selling the song "portable" XM radio unit for 125 bucks with a 75 dollar rebate.  Seems good, no?  ANd i've been saying for a while when the prices came down on the units I was gonna get in on this, so I did.

So my unit arrived today.  It took me 10 minutes to hookup to my home stereo.  The antenna is surprisingly strong and withing 30 minutes I had the thing hooked up and working.

Damn this sounds GOOD.  I mean, i've got like 130 channels of music and news streaming into my home stereo at amazing quality.

So has anyone done this?  Supposedly I can buy a car kit for this unit and carry it out to my car with me.  This is what I really want to do since I do quite a bit of driving for work.  Being able to listen to the same station for an entire trip would be nice.

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« Reply #1 on: July 08, 2003, 07:21:16 pm »
That's really nice.  Whenever football and other crap I do for work kicks back up in the fall, I'll have to see if I can find one as cheap as you did.

It would come in REAL handy for me because I'm a HUGE sports radio fan and good sports radio stations are hard to find--especially in rural Statesboro, Georgia where GSU is kept.
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« Reply #2 on: July 08, 2003, 09:06:51 pm »
Wow... excellent deal...  I always wanted to get a car unit that was XM ready... but that portable sounds great!  If things ever settle back in I will probably look into it...  how much is the subscription?
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« Reply #3 on: July 09, 2003, 05:18:57 am »
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Wow... excellent deal...  I always wanted to get a car unit that was XM ready... but that portable sounds great!  If things ever settle back in I will probably look into it...  how much is the subscription?


Subscription is 9.99 a month.  Which is a bit steep IMO, but worth it right now.  Especially when im sitting at work.  If nothing else, it may stop me from buying BAD CD's JUST cause I need something to listen to.
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« Reply #4 on: July 12, 2003, 08:38:33 pm »
Andrew, are you in St. Matthews?
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« Reply #5 on: July 14, 2003, 09:55:55 am »
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Andrew, are you in St. Matthews?


Not quite.  Im in lyndon, about a mile from St Matthews.  But very close.
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« Reply #6 on: July 14, 2003, 11:45:15 am »
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Quote from: "PintOGuinness"
Wow... excellent deal...  I always wanted to get a car unit that was XM ready... but that portable sounds great!  If things ever settle back in I will probably look into it...  how much is the subscription?


Subscription is 9.99 a month.  Which is a bit steep IMO, but worth it right now.  Especially when im sitting at work.  If nothing else, it may stop me from buying BAD CD's JUST cause I need something to listen to.
---Andrew


So you pay for the unit then you only pay 9.99 a month? I've been wanting to get it, but I wasn't sure if I would be buying a load of crap or not...Sounds good from what you said.
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« Reply #7 on: July 14, 2003, 12:02:53 pm »
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So you pay for the unit then you only pay 9.99 a month? I've been wanting to get it, but I wasn't sure if I would be buying a load of crap or not...Sounds good from what you said.


Yep.  Once you buy a unit its 9.99 a month.  And it's all I listen to when im at home because I LOVE the "deep tracks" station.  It's a classic rock station that plays songs with some kind of meaning or emotion to them.  They are doing a countdown of the top 4,000!!!! songs in alphabetical order!  It's awesome.
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