Yesterday I received an e-mail regarding my Sirius One receiver, that the FM transmitter exceeds FCC limits, and suggesting ways I could turn off the transmitter, and hook up direct to my audio system. Anyone else receive a similar email? They offered to send me an attenuator plug for the FM outlet. More info at [www.sirius.com/optimize] I bet FCC is requiring they send these e-mails.
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E-mail from Sirius re built in FM transmitter
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XM Radio, is asking us to nuder our XM radios too, like that's going to happen! I went out of my way to get the Audiovox, with extra coverage. Mine covers a block and half; and then some! When the FCC, stops short spacing radio stations, and dragged around by the leash by the NAB, I might entertain it! Until then, it's crank it time!
Steve
www.outlawradio.us
Steve
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andreajesus
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pberger said:
i got a letter sayin that....
pberger said:
Yep. Got it. It is part of a program to satisfy the FCC, short of recalling the radios. It's really a 'wink' campaign. They know people are gonna keep 'em.
The radio ad suggesting I use a cassette adapter in the car is just silly.
Not turning the transmitter off. I don't care if the neighbors listen in, intentionally or not.
I got mine, too. I got the one from XM last week.
Apperently, someone complained VERY loudly to the FCC. I heard a story a couple of years ago that someone was listening to a religious program in their car & a person using an FM transmitter pulled next to them at a red light. The person was very unhappy when the objectionable programming the second car was transmitting appearently overrode the religious programming.
I'm sure that the manufacturers of FM transmitters for other devices got the word as well. Those people who may be using the FM modulators in the Sirius & XM radios are known because these devices are registered. Those using the FM transmitters for iPods, for example, are harder to find. That's why the FCC probably notified the manufacturers rather than the end users.
Apperently, someone complained VERY loudly to the FCC. I heard a story a couple of years ago that someone was listening to a religious program in their car & a person using an FM transmitter pulled next to them at a red light. The person was very unhappy when the objectionable programming the second car was transmitting appearently overrode the religious programming.
I'm sure that the manufacturers of FM transmitters for other devices got the word as well. Those people who may be using the FM modulators in the Sirius & XM radios are known because these devices are registered. Those using the FM transmitters for iPods, for example, are harder to find. That's why the FCC probably notified the manufacturers rather than the end users.
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RadioLoverIL
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I have a Sportster Replay and got that email last week. I went ahead and replied by getting the attenuator plug, which arrived last Friday. It's so small I'll be lucky if I don't lose it, with the different kits I'd have to use it for (2 car kits, and 1 home kit). Obviously, it's a 1/8-inch jack, but the plug is only about 3/4-inch long.
Whether I use the plug or not, I doubt I will. But I figured if I ordered it it would help Sirius look good to the FCC in regards to the compliance numbers. Starting September 1, and every 3 months after that, they have to report to the FCC on their compliance status. And if the numbers aren't what the FCC is expecting, it's hard saying what further action might have to be taken. Of course, in regards to that, a person has to consider that the merged company is telling people with non-compliant radios that if they don't use the FM feature that they don't have to do anything. So, maybe when the FCC looks at the numbers, they may figure that in when they go to compare how many non-compliant radios are out there with how many of those are now compliant, and then also compare it to how many complaints they're still getting.
You have to love, though, how Sirius goes about trying to get people to go along with this, by saying in the email that by doing this it'll improve the sound of your radio.....when that is NOT the reason to have the subscriber do it.
Whether I use the plug or not, I doubt I will. But I figured if I ordered it it would help Sirius look good to the FCC in regards to the compliance numbers. Starting September 1, and every 3 months after that, they have to report to the FCC on their compliance status. And if the numbers aren't what the FCC is expecting, it's hard saying what further action might have to be taken. Of course, in regards to that, a person has to consider that the merged company is telling people with non-compliant radios that if they don't use the FM feature that they don't have to do anything. So, maybe when the FCC looks at the numbers, they may figure that in when they go to compare how many non-compliant radios are out there with how many of those are now compliant, and then also compare it to how many complaints they're still getting.
You have to love, though, how Sirius goes about trying to get people to go along with this, by saying in the email that by doing this it'll improve the sound of your radio.....when that is NOT the reason to have the subscriber do it.
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andreajesus
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but they must be "serious" 
(sorry, i couldn't resist!) now they're making announcements ON AIR about this thing - the emails are ONE thing, but...why the big mishegas with this thing?? Even with me taking the thing off FM, the only way that i can get Sirius AT ALL in my apartment is if I put the darned receiver ON THE FLOOR in my bedroom with the antenna part on the window sill, and PRAY for decent weather!!
Andrea
(oh, those NYC apartments!! ;D ;D ;D)
(sorry, i couldn't resist!) now they're making announcements ON AIR about this thing - the emails are ONE thing, but...why the big mishegas with this thing?? Even with me taking the thing off FM, the only way that i can get Sirius AT ALL in my apartment is if I put the darned receiver ON THE FLOOR in my bedroom with the antenna part on the window sill, and PRAY for decent weather!! Andrea
(oh, those NYC apartments!! ;D ;D ;D)
In the meanwhile, the FCC does nothing about the HUNDREDS of pirate stations around the country that are using up frequencies for us to put our FM transmitters on.
The FCC should allow the Part 15 FM transmitters to operate enough power to go 20 feet reliably.
Don't worry about getting caught, the FCC can't even catch pirates with hundreds of watts broadcasting from a fixed location, they won't track down your moving car with a .1 watt or less transmitter.
The FCC should allow the Part 15 FM transmitters to operate enough power to go 20 feet reliably.
Don't worry about getting caught, the FCC can't even catch pirates with hundreds of watts broadcasting from a fixed location, they won't track down your moving car with a .1 watt or less transmitter.
I think the situation is a bit different here, with a pirate, the FCC doesn't start off knowing where they are and has to put resources into finding them and so on. With a sirius radio, if the situation gets totally out of hand, the FCC just has to go to sirius and get a database of who has what type of radio and where they live, all the FCC has to do is send someone over and track your signal (of course this is all after a complaint is issued). If you think this violates some type of rights, just remember what the constitution really stands for in this day and age and then start looking out the window for the gov't plates on vans.
I received these e-mails as well. I use my FM transmitters on my XM and Sirius radios to listen throughout the house. Plus I have a part 15 FM transmitter hooked to the computer for online radio. No way I'm turning those off and lugging that from room to room to listen. I use a cassette adapter in the car only because it sounds better.. I'm not to worried about any complaints. I live in a fairly rural area, and i have all three transmitters set in the 88 to 89 MHZ range where there aren't any stations in this area anyway.
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