aside from satellite radio, what's the next best thing?

For just music you cant beat Grooveshark.com

Select your individual songs then let it run down the playlist. I've been using it the past 10 years or so.

Ppl have lists of their own premade if you don't want to go thru adding what you specifically are looking for.

 

Don't mount it on the dash. Mount it on the window. Don't let it touch the dash and no more damage.

 

Tram Browning made one that is longer in length then the typical Mobilespec's you'll find for sale. I got lucky when I got mine as I haven't seen anymore of the tall ones for sale after I bought it. I use to have a Mobilespec, but switched once I got tired of heading in particular directions and finding reception difficult (And I already had it mounted up above the passenger side door and forward)

I actually have a 2 prong spot mirror perch mount for my Cascadia it sit's on. The forward most perch has the satellite antenna on it and second perch back has my Wilson Cell antenna on it. No complaints so far.

 

I use straight talk phone / verizon coverage...$45 a month...unlimited talk , text , data....Plug it into the radio...listen to any radio station or podcast I want...1000s more choices than when I had xm...and a lot of shows and stations...have an listen to broadcast phone number...just dial the phone number and listen to the program or station

 

SEX? Oh wait, that is better than satellite radio. . .

When I was driving, I was hooked on the audio books. Get tired of the same old music, and after so many years of listening to different types of music, from CW to Classical, it all sort of became "the same old music."

But audio books would make the time just fly by. Particularly on long rural stretches of road that most of us find B O R I N G. ie; darn near anywhere in Nevada, Wyoming, Midwest - you get the picture.

 

Too bad for you all that Sirius doesn't offer a lifetime subscription anymore. I paid $500 in 2006 for mine.

 

Bending the topic just a little....one of the reasons I've never gone the satellite route is that I'd probably only listen to perhaps 3 or 4 stations at most. I've never been able to justify the cost in relation to just how much I may use it. Got 1000 songs I rotate randomly on my iPod....often I just ride in silence with the wind whistling between my ears....

 

Occasionally, on ebay, someone sells one that has it.

 

are you talking about the car's antenna or the satellite radio's? Depending on what type of XM receiver you have, I connect mines using the aux input behind the car radio. I notice when I am in my city and surrounding areas (Baltimore), reception is great but when I drive across town in Annapolis which is really only about 30 minutes away, the reception disappears completely. This couldn't be the XM problem but perhaps the antenna radio of the car which is something I have never replaced despite having a really old car.

Speaking of antennas, where can I buy one for my car and if installing a completely different one say a bigger one, would it mean I can get better signals from far away, say another state?

 

I think they run it once a year? During the Holidays? Christmas maybe or Thanksgiving day? I'll look into it to split the cost with my brother.