What is home satellite radio?
Home satellite radio is essentially a stationary version of the mobile satellite radios that can be found in many newer vehicles. Instead of relying on the standard FM and AM radio broadcasting signals, this radio’s music comes from a direct streaming transmission from a satellite orbiting in space. A home satellite radio system requires a receiver that should be connected either to speakers placed throughout the rooms of the home, or a home stereo system. They take the waves sent from the satellite and translate them into an audio signal. The human ear then interprets the signal as either speech or music. Home satellite radio differs from standard FM radio in two important ways. Before the decision to buy home satellite radio is made it is important to know both of these things. First, in order to have home satellite radio function properly one must both purchase a receiver and pay a monthly subscription fee. The second major difference is that are no commercial breaks on satellite ra
Very good description of satellite radio above. Here is what has not been told to you…. In the beginning satellite radio was something very innovative. It took a service like XM radio to realize that they needed to deliver something greater then what you could hear on FM radio. In other words, they wanted to be sure that subscriber dollars brought them something superior to what they had been listening to on terrestrial radio. XM radio offered a wide amount of music programming never before imagined on FM radio. Their music channels offered huge playlists full of eclectic choices and rarely a repeat. At times you would tune in and say, “Wow! I have not heard that song in years.” However, all that was soon to change once SIRIUS radio came into existence. SIRIUS was run by a bunch of old FM radio programmers. They believed that satellite radio needed to be an exact clone of FM radio where playlists would be severely limited and songs would be repeated day in and day out so that listene
