Tips on Satellite Radio

| Wednesday, January 18, 2012
By Olga Wright


Portable radios are nothing new, but the portable satellite radio has only grown in popularity in recent years. A mid range priced hand held portable radio is the XM XPMP3H1. This is more than just a radio, it is a completely portable music facility. As well as receiving broadcasts from around the globe, it also has the ability to record songs as you listen to them.

You can also schedule the recording of your favorite shows should you be unable to listen to them. It is very easy replay and pause up to 30 minutes of XM programming and the music manager software allows you to upload and manage MPA/WMA files. There is a generous 2 GB memory on board, which is further expandable with a microSD card. Weighing 2.4 pounds and costing around $150, there's a lot of technology packed into this little unit.

The signals are transmitted by a satellite and can span across thousands of miles. This means you can listen to the same station from the beginning of your travel all the way through to your destination. You may experience slight fading of the channels if you are in an area that has heavy tree cover, but as soon as you have a clear shot of the sky the station comes back in clearly again.

There are also sports channels, chat shows, special interest shows, and many more. For sports fans there is live coverage of all the NBA and NFL games, as well as the NASCAR races. This is an excellent piece of equipment that embraces the adage "you get what you pay for".

What you may find different in listening to the radio in this digital age is that there will be less talk time, less intros and just good quality music. The disc jockey does still exist in satellite radio, but he takes more of a back seat. He will prepare the songs for the next hour and compile them onto a format that is like an MP3 to play; long gone are the days where records got stuck or jumped on your favorite show.

The different stations that you may wish to tune into all have a separate digital frequency, and like with television, the decoder that you have in the home or in your car will automatically find all the stations in real time. This means that the end result you actually hear is converted from binary into analogue and the music will sound as good as an unscratched compact disc.

If you have $80 to spend on a satellite radio, the Samsung YP X5X neXus 25 is right on your budget. This is a satellite receiver and top quality music player. Record and playback your favorite XM content and it supports the XM + Napster files. A Docking station allows you to connect it your your home stereo to add and remove files as you wish. The memory can hold 25 hours worth of playback and it is light and ideal to pop in your pocket.




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