[Electronics-Talk] questions about xm radio

[Arlene]

Thank you, Jim. It's good to know the customer service was helpful and it's 
nice to know the newer radios have buttons, at least some of them.

Arlene
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From: "Jim Shaffer via Electronics-Talk" <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
To: "Discussion of accessible home electronics and appliances" 
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Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2017 10:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] questions about xm radio


> Arlene, I recently had a reason to call the Sirius/XM support people.  The 
> guy was very helpful.  He even had the manual for my old Delphi Sky-phi II 
> XM receiver, and was able to talk me through making an adjustment to it. 
> He also told me that the new radios they have, or at least some of them, 
> have real buttons as opposed to relying on a touch screen.  So I would say 
> just call them up and ask for the kind of radio you want, and they'll help 
> you with that.
>
> I'm sure someone on this list is more knowledgable than I about the 
> current radios, but they at least have a helpful support staff.
> --
> Jim Shaffer
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Arlene via Electronics-Talk
> Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2017 8:56 PM
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> Cc: Arlene
> Subject: [Electronics-Talk] questions about xm radio
>
> We are quite interested in finding out information and details about the 
> xm radio receivers, which would be for home use since we don't have a car. 
> What are some of the best receivers you've had? how about the 
> accessibility details? In mind of the talking satalite and cable boxes 
> including speech, do any of the satalite xm radio receivers include 
> speech? Do you need an app with a smart phone to work these radios? Then 
> again it may be something that isn't that hard to work, but neither one of 
> us know about these receivers, but we're interested in getting one. We do 
> have xm radio included in our dish tv service, which includes the music 
> stations which we love,Though we would really like to get one of these 
> radios to be able to get all the different stations that are offered. 
> Thank you for any advice and information for what to look for in these 
> radios. My email address is
> arlenes71154 at earthlink.net
> If this was possibly to much of an off topic question, any of you that 
> have had experience with the satalite radios you can write me off list. 
> Thank you for any information you  can inform us of.
>
> Arlene
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