Usually people have their favorite radio station auto programmed in their car radios, usually there are a few and people will flip through them as they drive along. However if you travel outside of a specified range your signal will begin to get choppy and eventually fade. So if you are traveling then you usually end up listening to anything to cut the silence, even if it is something that you’re not particularly fond of. Satellite radio can get a crisp signal for some 20,000 miles which means that you don’t have to change stations or compromise your clarity at all. Another thing that is really nice is there are a lot less commercials too.
XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio both have a fantastic service that is also called digital radio which consists of high quality, uninterrupted music sent to your radio from space. In 2007, XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio, both in debt, decided to plan a merger. After much skepticism and a lot of red tape the U.S. Department of Justice finally allowed the merger in July 2008 and is now called Sirius XM Radio.
Satellite radio works a lot like satellite TV; you will buy a receiver and pay a monthly subscription for a pre specified number of channels. Since people are paying for the privilege of listening, and satellite radio is a buyer’s market, the wide selection of broadcast media that is available are regulated mostly by what the listeners want and what they are willing to pay for. Satellite radio offers many more listening opportunities for those people who are willing to pay for it.
To understand how satellite radio works you must first understand how analog radio works. Analog radio works by broadcasting the radio frequency to local transmitters and then on to the listener. Satellite radio works similarly but instead of using stationary transmitters with limited range to broadcast their media to the people, they use mobile satellites. Satellites orbit the earth and can pick up and transmit signals globally instead of just in a limited area. In the satellite radio category a satellite bounces the transmitted radio frequency off of the satellite and out to the millions of satellite radio listeners around the world.
Once you have ordered your subscription to this service, the device is programmed into a database of devices that are allowed to receive specific radio transmissions from specific satellites. This entry into the database then sends a signal to the device to decrypt satellite frequencies, providing the user with audible satellite radio reception.
It definitely draws attention from people when they see that you are able to access so many radio stations and that they are so clear. So if you are considering the same option for yourself then you should first decide on a service provider, in the US there is only one choice, Sirius XM Radio. Once you have the provider handled then you need to make a dash to your local consumer electronics store and pick up a satellite radio receiver as this is the next important component that you will need.
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