[Electronics-Talk] Onyx+

[Arlene]

Hi, Tracy, it's got an adapter and it needs to be plugged in. you wouldn't 
loose the settings, if the power went out. You could get the radio for about 
$60. The radio you want is the one that has the home kit with it. The radio 
slides down into the home kit and that's where all the audio jack, antena 
jac, and power input jack is. The size of the actual radio is the size of 
the iphone se, the iphone se  just might be a quarter inch longer, and the 
radio is just a little thicker than the phone.  If the back of the kit is 
facing you, on the left is the audio jack and the power jack is on the 
right. and no matter how it's facing the antena will be in the middle. It 
comes with a nice long cable on the antena, at least about 20 feet. They say 
it's best to have the antena facing the south,and since it's small they 
recomend to put it on a window sill if you can. If that's not possible, such 
as in our case, we do have that south wall without a window. We didn't want 
to put it on the floor. They say you could mount it outside, outdoors, but 
in our case we didn't want to do that, and  if you live in an apartment 
mounting it outdoors may be out of the question. So we have a closet with 
the south wall, so we put the antena on the top shelf, above where you hang 
up clothes, against the south wall, got it positioned correctly and haven't 
had any troubles with it, no signal difficulties, and no dropouts. Tip, once 
the antena is correctly positioned and getting good reception, you could buy 
a roll of mounting tape, of which we buy it from walmart for about $4.28 
made by scotch brand, comes on a card and has a green looking backing. One 
roll would be way more than enough to  mount and tape it in place.We have 
all of our electronic equipment on ups, that is uninterupted power supply. 
You could get them for all prices. If you were able to go to sams in your 
area, they sell a unit for about$60. It would probably run the radio for 
many days. Another thing that's nice about the power supply, it has a usb 
charging port, so  you could keep your phone plugged in. If the power goes 
out, you could charge most phones for 7 times, if you're not using it for 
anything else.  The home kit itself doesn't have a power button, that is on 
the remote and radio. Hopefully all of this doesn't sound too complicated 
and confusing to you, we'll continue to help you out as much as possible.

Arlene and Wayne
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tracy Carcione via Electronics-Talk" <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
To: "'Discussion of accessible home electronics and appliances'" 
<electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
Cc: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net>
Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2018 9:28 AM
Subject: [Electronics-Talk] Onyx+


> Hi Arlene.
> Interesting.  Does the Onyx have to be plugged in?  What happens to all 
> the
> settings when you lose power?
> How big is the Onyx?
> Thanks.
> Tracy
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Electronics-Talk [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of wayne via Electronics-Talk
> Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2018 9:32 PM
> To: Discussion of accessible home electronics and appliances
> Cc: wayne
> Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] New Satellite radio desperately needed
>
> Tracy, If there's any  other stations you'd like us to try, just ask. As I
> said yesterday, we did try to get channel 219 and 201 on the web page 
> where
> you could listen on the computer, they weren't available. Here's a few
> thoughts about the radios, If you get a portable radio my concerns would 
> be
> just how good the reception would be. Seeings how xm offers a few of these
> radios I hope the reception would be good. I want to tell you about some 
> of
> the features that  our radio has, the model is the onyx plus. A very
> important feature if one has no vision you have direct access to any 
> channel
>
> with the number pad. For anything you want to do with the radio is best 
> done
>
> with the remote, however, the more important features are on the front of
> the radio. This is a very small compact system. The out put is a standard
> output for audio, it's a standard 3/8 inch jack, so most portable speaker
> systems will plug right into it, if you don't have a sterio to hook it up
> too. It's a very good audio sound. One  great feature is that we just used
> this afternoon, is the ability to rewind up to an hour, so we had a show
> that went over 20 minutes so that wasn't a problem, because all we had to 
> do
>
> was change the channel and rewind to the beginning of the program on that
> channel. Important, if you decide to purchase this radio, and want the
> ability to rewind, there are 20 presets that you could put your favorite
> stations in. Actually the only channels that are rewindable are the 
> stations
>
> that you have in the presets. If you decide to get this model of radio, if
> you have any questions about how to do anything on it or any questions 
> about
>
> it, don't hessitate to ask. It will be necessary for someone sighted to 
> help
>
> you initially get the radio set up for you. We had the sales person at 
> best
> buy help us getting the radio activated, and since the menues don't talk,
> and setting all the options the way we wanted it, and of course we always
> take our slates and styluses with us so we had an accurate chart of the
> remote and  of the front and back of the radio. Then when we got home we 
> did
>
> everything else. This radio hasn't been turned off, it's been on for over 
> a
> year, about a year and 3 months, and it hasn't had no problems, no gliches
> and no drops in signal.
>
> Arlene and Wayne
> Arlene
> arlenes71154 at earthlink.net
> Wayne
> greenwood33 at cox.net
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tracy Carcione via Electronics-Talk" <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
> To: "'Discussion of accessible home electronics and appliances'"
> <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net>
> Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2018 7:40 AM
> Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] New Satellite radio desperately needed
>
>
>> Hi Arlene.
>> Thanks for your help, and your doggedness.
>> I contacted Sirius, and asked them why I couldn't get some stations on 
>> the
>> app, and they said something about contracts and some stations don't have
>> a
>> contract to be on the app.  Sounds weird, but there it is.
>> Someone says they have a used portable radio, so I 'll check into that.At
>> least
>> you got the station I want on your actual radio.Sirius has made some
>> recent
>> changes to the app too that make
>> It not nearly so accessible as it was.  Grrr.
>> Tracy
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Electronics-Talk [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of wayne via Electronics-Talk
>> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2018 7:46 PM
>> To: Discussion of accessible home electronics and appliances
>> Cc: wayne
>> Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] New Satellite radio desperately needed
>>
>> Hi, Tracy, this is me Arlene writing back to you on Wayne's computer. The
>> xm
>>
>> app is little clunkier than it use to be, and of all channels, just the
>> one
>> you want, we can't get it on the app either, we can get channel 219 on 
>> the
>> radio just fine. Wayne is doing everything right, as right as he can be
>> with
>>
>> searching the channels, with any other channels he goes too, that will
>> play.
>>
>> Then I thought we should try some of the other sports stations, so I told
>> Wayne to try channel208, and when he searched it, the result was it 
>> saying
>> channel 92, which didn't play. Now the strange thing about that, when I
>> copied the channel guide some time ago,
>> it has in that part of the channel guide, channel 184, and then the next
>> channel number after channel 184 is channel 204, which starts with the
>> sports stations. So we've got to find out about why we don't get channel
>> 201
>>
>> on the app. I don't know right now if we get channel 201 on the radio
>> which
>>
>> is something I'll check on, and if we don't get channel 201 on the  radio
>> when we call xm, we'll ask why we can't get that too, that's if we can't
>> get
>>
>> it on the radio, and why we can't get both channels 201 and 219 on the
>> app.
>> Anyway he tried channel 204 and that worked. Now he was able to read the
>> pop
>>
>> up message when he searched 219 on another one of our se phones and it
>> says
>> that it's unavailable. We found the pop up on the other phone and 
>> couldn't
>> seem to read the pop up. We're going to work on this more to find out why
>> we
>>
>> can't get itand we'll let you know what we find out. If there's anything
>> else we could help you with about this or if you think of anything you
>> want
>> us to try we'll do that. I almost forgot, we're going to see if we could
>> get
>>
>> both these channels online on the xm web page, because there's a number 
>> of
>> channels that are  only available online on the web site. It's so
>> frustrating when you really want to be able to get a radio station like 
>> in
>> this situation. I was almost beginning to think we wouldn't be able to 
>> get
>> any of the sports stations on the app.
>>
>> Arlene
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Tracy Carcione via Electronics-Talk" <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> To: "'Discussion of accessible home electronics and appliances'"
>> <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> Cc: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net>
>> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2018 11:25 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] New Satellite radio desperately needed
>>
>>
>>> Sirius 219/XM 201.
>>>
>>> If you can get this on the app, please let me know.  It's the station I
>>> want
>>> the most.
>>> Tracy
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Electronics-Talk [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>>> Behalf Of Sherri Brun via Electronics-Talk
>>> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2018 1:48 PM
>>> To: 'Discussion of accessible home electronics and appliances'
>>> Cc: Sherri Brun
>>> Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] New Satellite radio desperately needed
>>>
>>> Can you give me an example of a station that is only available on the
>>> radio
>>> but not on the app?  I noticed the reverse.  I am interested to learn
>>> more.
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Sherri
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Electronics-Talk [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>>> Behalf Of Tracy Carcione via Electronics-Talk
>>> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2018 11:20 AM
>>> To: 'Discussion of accessible home electronics and appliances'
>>> <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
>>> Cc: Tracy Carcione <carcione at access.net>
>>> Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] New Satellite radio desperately needed
>>>
>>> My problem with the Sirius app is that not all the stations are on it.
>>> Some
>>> are only available with an actual radio, regardless of the subscription
>>> package.  Come on Sirius, catch up with the rest of the world!
>>> Tracy
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Electronics-Talk [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>>> Behalf Of Jim McCarthy via Electronics-Talk
>>> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2018 10:50 AM
>>> To: 'Discussion of accessible home electronics and appliances'
>>> Cc: Jim McCarthy
>>> Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] New Satellite radio desperately needed
>>>
>>> I purchased my first satellite radio in the early 2000's. We do not have
>>> south exposure though and even with an antenna and repeater, I had very
>>> poor
>>> reception. Because of that, I use the serius-xm app and for me it is
>>> better
>>> than the radios ever have been. The subscription with only the app
>>> probably
>>> costs more than it should or than I wish but...
>>> Jim McCarthy
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Electronics-Talk [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>>> Behalf Of Tracy Carcione via Electronics-Talk
>>> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2018 10:08 AM
>>> To: 'Discussion of accessible home electronics and appliances'
>>> Cc: Tracy Carcione
>>> Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] New Satellite radio desperately needed
>>>
>>> Does anyone know if the Onyx is portable, or does it have to be plugged
>>> in?
>>> And, if it has to be plugged into a stereo, is it the amp it needs, or
>>> the
>>> speakers?  In other words, would a portable speaker work as well?
>>> Tracy
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Electronics-Talk [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>>> Behalf Of Leslie Fairall via Electronics-Talk
>>> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2018 9:34 PM
>>> To: Jenny Perdue via Electronics-Talk
>>> Cc: Leslie Fairall
>>> Subject: [Electronics-Talk] New Satellite radio desperately needed
>>>
>>> Hello:
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, I managed to break my old satellite radio. I tried to fix
>>> it,
>>> but I didn't help the cause.
>>>
>>> Now I need a new satellite radio. I had the Delphi SkyFi that was a
>>> standalone radio with buttons. I'm considering the Onyx Plus since it 
>>> has
>>> buttons. However, I think you have to hook it up to something such as a
>>> stereo. I would like a more standalone radio if I can fine one.  Any
>>> advice
>>> appreciated and needed. I will go to Best Buy and pick it up if I have
>>> to,,
>>> if I can find the right thing. Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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