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Nwatkins176

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Okay, I have not been able to find an answer to this question and I am getting frustrated at trying.  I am addicted to Sirius XM radio.  In my car it is the only thing I listen to, I never use CD's I never hook my ipod to the car radio etc.

I understand hooking Sirius XM up in a car and I understand doing it for a house.  I know I need a deck for the dash and a Sirius Tuner.  Is there a way to use that same tuner on the house radio?  Basically is there a Sirius XM tuner that has two outputs to use on the house radio or the dash radio?  So I can Sirius radio while on the road or parked without paying the monthly subscription on two different Sirius radio's?  Thanks in advance 
 
The only way to do this that I am aware of is to have one of the portable units (used to be the Roady, not sure what they have nowadays).  If you have an in-dash unit in your vehicle(s), I don't know of any other way to bring it to the house. 
 
There is a portable unit you can buy.  Then it has an auxiliary kit that you need to purchase for the house.  I have one and I love it.  In the car it hooks into your auxiliary button and at home it will do the same or the kit does have RCA cables if you don't have an auxiliary button on your home receiver.  I got mine at BestBuy.
 
Their web site offers several options.

I have the XM Roady that Ed mentioned, purchased before Sirius acquired XM. It's small a standalone receiver that came with a 'home kit', and is easily moved berween home and RV; I just plug it into the sound system in either place. Because one of the cars already had an XM receiver and I was paying a monthly subscription, I was able to add the Roady for a small monthly fee under a 'family plan'. Don't know if they offer a similar plan today.
 
Sorry the confusion.  I am good to go in my car.  I am going to be full timing in my rv.  So I was hoping to have Satelite Radio in the RV no mater if I am driving or using the house radio from one Satelite Tuner.  :)  man this one is hard to explain. 
 
We use the same system and it works very well for one subscription.  We have a Roady with a built in deck in the fifth-wheel, a base in the car and a boombox arrangement in my wood shop.  The XM unit snaps in and out of the three locations as we are preparing to take a trip or be at home.  Just keep in mind that you will need antennas at all locations so figure out how you will run one.  The Roady comes with a magnetic one and it's just a matter of getting the wire outside.  My boombox came with an antenna that can be set in the window and it reads a signal through the glass.
 
To save money, get one of the portable units like has been mentioned.  Then pickup the correct adapters for RV car truck house what ever you need and connect them.  One unit will suffice for all of your rigs saving a bundle of dollars a year.  Heck we are still using a pair of the Pioneer innos.  Besides being portable they also record music for those times when sat reception is poor for some reason.  Love them, i just dred the day i have to replace the radios as we will miss the pre recorded mishc content.
 
Nwatkins176 said:
Sorry the confusion.  I am good to go in my car.  I am going to be full timing in my rv.  So I was hoping to have Satelite Radio in the RV no mater if I am driving or using the house radio from one Satelite Tuner.  :)  man this one is hard to explain.

Okay, I think we may need a little more information.  So, you are good to go in your car.  You have a in-dash (or factory) radio with SiriusXM already on it.  Correct?  What kind of RV do you have (TT, 5th wheel, Class A/C)?  And what kind of SiriusXM do you already have in your house?  This may help us figure out what you need.
 
    I'll give this a try.  You have one in the house and the car that is sat ready.  To play in the RV through the radio you need an adapter for the sat unit similar to the house unit. Power is a separate lead from the cigarette lighter.  Antenna is a separate lead from the sat unit.  Radio and sat unit have there own antennas.  To play through the RV radio you need a wireless FM modulator.  This unit will direct you to tune to a unused FM station so you can listen through the radio.  Or you can use what I think they call direct connect.  This wraps around your RV antenna and plays through a predetermined FM station.  This is the better of the two but requires one more wire to be strung to the outside of the RV.  I buy everything I need online.  Try myradiostore.com .  I've done this for XM.  For Sirius just make sure you identify what you have and get compatible stuff.
 
I have a TAO XM2Go radio with antennas on the boat, car and MH. The unit is portable, battery powered/12v/110v, and can be used as a portable unit with headphones with a belt clip. It can play thru the car radio on either end of the fm spectrum, thru the MH stereo on the FM spectrum or thru my iPod speakers. It also records 2 hours of programming if you know you will be somewhere with no reception, like parking garages.

I've had mine for 4 years or so, which makes it way out of date and probably not still available. Extra antenna are available on Ebay to wire up all the places you want.

Now if someone could explain why the rates are so high and keep rising. Wasn't the merger supposed to lower costs?

Ken
 

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