After driving the wife's car, I've decided to get a receiver that plugs into the "aux" input on my pickup. I've looked around, and totally confused myself on which one to get. Time for the inputs from you guys. Not looking for fancy bells and whistles, just a plain jane receiver that's dependable.

 

My brain got tied in knots when I was on evilpay looking at the systems. I ran the "one" system when I was driving truck, you could pick them up for $25 back then. I've got the Stratus 6 now. Works OK, but not very dim-able. Can't run it at night a whole lot if glare bothers you.
There's 2 docks, one for Sirius and one for XM. For some stupid reason they made them just different enough they won't interchange.

 

sirius offers more channels than XM.
I had sirius in my frontier for 3 months. found like three channels I liked, but didn't feel it was worth the money for three channels.

 

I remember when Sirius had lifetime subscriptions for under 600.00 and you could run two units off same account. Didn't get it but have lived without it even when i was racking up the miles.

My wife had 6 months free with her jeep and didn't renew either.
On edit, Bark claims his tin foil hat works well.

 

I only have mine to listen to NASCAR and a some comedy channels mainly while I'm planting.

 

From the sounds of it, maybe time to stock up on CD's. At least that way, I can get what I want. I have a GPS that I fly with that will handle loading MP3 onto. HOWEVER, that big warning that if you do it wrong, it's toast...

I'll figure out something for sure. I just know that the same 3 Willie and Johnie Cash CD's keep living in my truck. I think I know their stuff better than they do by now.

 

It lets you hear the music without the voices telling you what to do.

Seriously though, I don't know anything about sat radio but am wondering if the Sirius channels on dish are the same as sat radio or are there more of them.

 

I've run Sirius for 7 or 8 years, cant complain too bad, I think I paid $549 for a lifetime subscription (per radio, I have 3 of them) and the only complaint I have is that if you buy the lifetime sub they hose you $70 to switch devices

 

I can get the same 20 country songs or the same 20 classic rock songs around here for free. I have 7500 songs on my iPod and mostly listen to that anymore.

I had Sirius on my 02 GMC but I lost signal alot back in the hills back then, maybe it is better now.

 

I liked sirius when I had it... have not missed it now that I don't.

It was great for travelling the country. Not so much in the mountains with lost signals.

I think that a well stocked mp3 is the best solution.

 

I like my Sirius but I listen to the political Chanel's and nascar 95% of the time XM dont pick up as well in the city's as Sirius and never had a problem in the mt unless tree cover got me

 

I have Sirius and couldn't live without it. 10 hour graveyard shifts in an area with limited broadcast stations- it keeps you sane.

The basic cheap receiver will probably do what you want. When you get into the nicer ones you get the ability to pause or rewind, a remote control, 3 banks of presets, and a dock that the receiver fits in to.

That said, a lot of folks have switched to Pandora on a smart phone. Used to be free but I think there is now a fee. As I understand it, on line you pick some music and it chooses additional things it thinks you might like. Content loads onto the device when it has wi-fi.

 

I'm going to call and complain. The NASCAR channel, when they interview someone, I can't hear them. The co-host, I can hardly hear, the primary host, I can hear pretty good. Then the commercials come on and blast my eardrums. Have to constantly fiddle with the main radio, which doesn't work so well across a wheat field at 8-9 MPH in a Steiger. Or at 5MPH pulling a planter, either.