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Really BAD First Experience with Sirius Satellite Radio!

GTaudiophile

GTaudiophile

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I had never had any experience with satellite radio of any kind before Thursday. I rented a car from Hertz to drive from Washington, DC to Richmond, VA for a business trip. Other then getting reception in DC and Richmond, all I could get on I-95 in between was AQUIRING SIGNAL. That was going both ways. Going down I had cloudy weather. Coming back today I had perfect blue skies!

Maybe I just got bad equipment? But if not, how on earth do you people justify the monthly price for such an absolutely CRAPPY product? I guess Hertz has done me a favor. Now I know NEVER to invest in satellite radio.
 
Sounds like an equipment problem. I have never had service dropouts with Sirius, regardless of location.

Frankly I think your thread title and commentary are stupid - it's as though you got online with a 486 over a 9600-baud modem, then told all your friends, "the internet SUCKS!" Obviously it isn't your fault you had problems, but it was more than likely not Sirius' problem either.
 
Originally posted by: DonVito
Sounds like an equipment problem. I have never had service dropouts with Sirius, regardless of location.

Frankly I think your thread title and commentary are stupid - it's as though you got online with a 486 over a 9600-baud modem, then told all your friends, "the internet SUCKS!" Obviously it isn't your fault you had problems, but it was more than likely not Sirius' problem either.
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Picky Picky Picky.

Well, until someone shows me a satellite radio that works all the time as intended, then my opinion stands.
 
Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Originally posted by: DonVito
Sounds like an equipment problem. I have never had service dropouts with Sirius, regardless of location.

Frankly I think your thread title and commentary are stupid - it's as though you got online with a 486 over a 9600-baud modem, then told all your friends, "the internet SUCKS!" Obviously it isn't your fault you had problems, but it was more than likely not Sirius' problem either.
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Picky Picky Picky.

Well, until someone shows me a satellite radio that works all the time as intended, then my opinion stands.
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Your opinion is based on ignorance. My satellite radio, which I bought for $89 and installed myself, works all the time as intended, as does most every other one. You are basing your opinion on one bad experience - it's as though your rental car's CD player was broken, and so you proclaimed "CDs SUCK!!!"

 
Originally posted by: DonVito
Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Originally posted by: DonVito
Sounds like an equipment problem. I have never had service dropouts with Sirius, regardless of location.

Frankly I think your thread title and commentary are stupid - it's as though you got online with a 486 over a 9600-baud modem, then told all your friends, "the internet SUCKS!" Obviously it isn't your fault you had problems, but it was more than likely not Sirius' problem either.
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Picky Picky Picky.

Well, until someone shows me a satellite radio that works all the time as intended, then my opinion stands.
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Your opinion is based on ignorance. My satellite radio works all the time as intended, as does most every other one. You are basing your opinion on one bad experience - it's as though your rental car's CD player was broken, and so you proclaimed "CDs SUCK!!!"
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Oh, so if you went to a fine restaurant and afterwards got food poisoning, you wouldn't proclaim the restaurant as one to avoid? I see, you'd go back the next night because you had so much fun puking and crapping your guts out.
 
Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Oh, so if you went to a fine restaurant and afterwards got food poisoning, you wouldn't proclaim the restaurant as one to avoid? I see, you'd go back the next night because you had so much fun puking and crapping your guts out.
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To adapt your analogy, you are not saying the restaurant (i.e., Hertz, and this particular car) sucks, you are saying food as a whole sucks. You are essentially saying you will stay away from a product you've never tried, because Hertz couldn't deliver it. You're entitled to your opinion, but this seems like a dumb basis for it.
 
Originally posted by: GTaudiophile

Oh, so if you went to a fine restaurant and afterwards got food poisoning, you wouldn't proclaim the restaurant as one to avoid? I see, you'd go back the next night because you had so much fun puking and crapping your guts out.
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As an unrelated aside, when I was in law school I lived one block from a taqueria that many people feel has the best burritos in the United States - a huge burrito and a basket of chips and salsa was $2.98, tax included! I went there at least 4 days of every week. I got food poisoning there twice, and in once case did, in fact, go back the next day. Hee hee . . .
 
Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
I had never had any experience with satellite radio of any kind before Thursday. I rented a car from Hertz to drive from Washington, DC to Richmond, VA for a business trip. Other then getting reception in DC and Richmond, all I could get on I-95 in between was AQUIRING SIGNAL. That was going both ways. Going down I had cloudy weather. Coming back today I had perfect blue skies!

Maybe I just got bad equipment? But if not, how on earth do you people justify the monthly price for such an absolutely CRAPPY product? I guess Hertz has done me a favor. Now I know NEVER to invest in satellite radio.
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Definitely an equipment problem. Most likely the antenna wire was either unplugged or just broken.
 
Thanks for sharing. I would find out if this particular car has an issue with Sirius. Ill bet a little digging might reveal something.
 
The reason you got reception in the metro areas is because they send those signals over terretrial antennas. Obviously the sat antenna or head unit had problems w/ getting a sat signal.
 
Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Originally posted by: DonVito
Sounds like an equipment problem. I have never had service dropouts with Sirius, regardless of location.

Frankly I think your thread title and commentary are stupid - it's as though you got online with a 486 over a 9600-baud modem, then told all your friends, "the internet SUCKS!" Obviously it isn't your fault you had problems, but it was more than likely not Sirius' problem either.
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Picky Picky Picky.

Well, until someone shows me a satellite radio that works all the time as intended, then my opinion stands.
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I got the XM car package from w00t!, and the only time I lose signal is in a tunnel or going through downtown on a cloudy day...
 
I lose XM for brief periods (usually similar to a CD skip) on my commute to work, but the commute is on periods of winding interstate with woods/hills on each side. There are 3 places, I think, that is drops for no more than a second under normal traveling speeds.
 
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Way to blame Sirius for a Hertz problem. It's satellite, so you're not going to get service everywhere in the world, 24/7, throwing out weather conditions. To think otherwise would be extremely stupid.

Someone probably jacked the antenna or something in your crappy rental. I can understand if you don't want Sat Radio, but what happened to you was not on Sirius.
 
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