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Sirius Equipment Questions

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ARK AFL

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I am strongly considering picking up Sirius, but I'm still not sure what all equipment I need to get. Let's say I select the Starmate reciever, and I'm planning to listen in my truck and at home: what else do I need?
 
The home kit.. which would plug into your home stereo. Starmate comes with the car kit. If you don't have a home stereo, get the Sportster, which comes with the car kit, and you can buy the boombox for home listening. Basically, in order to listen, you need to have your receiver plugged in.
 
I'm looking at buying the least I can. I have a stereo with a line-in jack, so I'm not really worried about the boom box. But I do need an AC adapter, right?

And is the Sirius ONE as good? And my local Wally World has the VISOR on clearance. How is that?
 
Ark I started with the Sportster Replay that came with home and car kits. Its display died so I bought a Starmate replay for the car and moved Sportster inside.

I immediately noticed the Starmate picked up the signal better, fewer dropouts on the road.

The Sportster continued to drop signal regularly in the house even though I ran the antenna outside. The display got worse so I replaced it with another Starmate. Plugged the Starmate into the Sportsters ac adaptor and antenna and have no more reception problems.

You were talking about using the line out but fyi the fm modulator on the Sportster was good for maybe 10 feet, the Sportster is more like 40 feet.

Unless you're planning to bring the auto antenna inside you'll need an antenna as well as an adapter for the house.

There is a starmate replay with home and car kits on sirius.com for 109, not bad mine was 85 w/o home kit.

A auto installer did not recommend Sirius one to me. It lacks some basic feature (forget which one).
 
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