Anyone familiar with this in dash sirius radio?

Had one of these in a company truck years ago. If it has not been used in a while it may say initializing for a while as it updates the radio. one time it did that to me for about 45 minutes before going back to satalite radio. So maybe let it sit like that for a while until it quits saying that. dont change it back to regular radio until its done or it will start over. If it does not quit that after an hour then its not working properly.

 

First push the band button and see if the XM open channel line up plays or if the radio ID comes up. Many of those were only satellite ready and require an add on box to get XM. The button push will tell what you have.

PS. If you need the box it's not worth it. Better to just buy a new receiver that's XM ready.

JMO

 

Call Sirius Xm they will tell you how to pull up the radio number and how much it will cost per month. If it is primary radio it is about 35 if it is secondary radio it is about 13-14. That gets you the second level with country and Fox News. What else could anyone want.

 

I'd buy a separate Sirius unit so I could switch it to different vehicles, at no cost
Get one with the replay option, so you can pause and rewind.

 

I have that same radio in my Columbia. Was in the truck when I bought it.

I did the satellite radio thing for a while. I think it was $8.95 a month when I first got it.

Then they raised the price. Then they cut back on some of the channels I liked,.. wanted me to pay even more to have the comedy channels and such.

Fed up,.. I canceled my account. I now use Pandora exclusively on my phone, plugged into the input port on the truck stereo.

As for the activation.

On mine,.. when you put it on Satellite, you put it on channel 0 (Zero) and your key or serial number goes across the screen. Thats the number they need to activate it. That number is also on the back of the head unit. Says Sirrus/XM serial #.

Waist of money personally. $13 month for basic channels and they want another $5.95 for the extra channels they used to include with everything.

Pandora is $5 month and I have everything I had with Satellite,. plus more variety. There is also the iHeart radio,.. but you have commercials with that and not as much control over what you listen to.

Hurst

 

I beleive he cant pull up the radio Id because it continues to say Initializing. I had the same problem years ago and it would not let me scroll throught the channels or anything until it quit doing that. Mine took about 45 minutes as I recall before it would let me scroll through the channels to find #0 so i could see the radio ID. Just my experience anyway.

 

Pandora has bandwith cutoffs, iHeartRadio burns up your data, sirius doesn't affect any of that

 

The free one does. Not if you pay for it. I listen to Pandora 8 - 14 hrs a day,.. everyday. Its $5 month,.. you get unlimited music and unlimited music search and song skip. And I never had any problems with iHeart eating up bandwidth. I guess if you only have 1 or 2 GB a month to play with I guess you might have issues. I have 40GB plan with verizon. I do Netflix or Hulu TV almost every night. Heck,.. I fall a sleep with it on most of the time.

Satellite was great. I have no complaints about the service. I just feel jaded because they took away and charged me for what I once didnt have to pay extra for,.. and they did it after increasing my monthly bill with out telling me they were increasing it.

I despise them personally,.. not the service. But if you dont mind paying (roughly) $15 - $20 a month,.. then by all means. Have at it.

I pay more for certain things that other people would not. We all have to have something to help us along while out here.

Hurst

 

the radios are sirius brand, and i could be wrong but i think they're sirius ready. seems to be the only model freightliner installs.

as for the initialization. probably not going to happen since the radio itself isn't activated. which is probably why it's initializing. it's trying to program itself.
all our trucks are activated, and it only takes 15 seconds when it happens.