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R-Audi
11-25-2002, 10:02 PM
I have been looking into them, but I heard they don't work in Canada... Is that true? Any experiences?
kaput
11-25-2002, 10:50 PM
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Thor
11-27-2002, 01:47 PM
nope... not yet...
rage2
11-27-2002, 02:55 PM
There's local repeaters in major metropolitan cities in the US to repeat the signal in downtown cores where there's a lot of buildings. There's 2 satellites that the signals gets beamed down from, so reception will be close to what GPS provides (pretty much everywhere but downtown).

And yes u can sub to it, they sell and allow subs from canadians. I know some folks in BC that's got 'em.
RC-Cola
12-06-2002, 05:39 PM
Originally posted by rage2
And yes u can sub to it, they sell and allow subs from canadians. I know some folks in BC that's got 'em.

That news, I looked into it a while ago and they didn't allow anyone outside of the US the subscribe to the service. According to their website you still can't... Is there a different service that I don't know about?

http://www.xmradio.com/faq/help_sub.jsp?id=31&off=0&pgSize=10#1
Hakkola
12-06-2002, 06:17 PM
Yes, you can, i know a girl who went to my highschool she got it for her explorer for christmas last year and it worked
gpomp
12-06-2002, 06:46 PM
Originally posted by RC-Cola


That news, I looked into it a while ago and they didn't allow anyone outside of the US the subscribe to the service. According to their website you still can't... Is there a different service that I don't know about?

http://www.xmradio.com/faq/help_sub.jsp?id=31&off=0&pgSize=10#1

I think it works if you're within a certain distance to the US border.
That.Guy.S30
12-07-2002, 12:31 AM
they work rigth now in some parts of van.. u gotta pay a yearly fee of 15 bucks... or around there
TomTom
12-09-2002, 02:43 PM
ithe pioneer mobile electronics rep for western canada told me that it wasnt yet, but what some people were doing was if they had somtone in the states that could hook it up than send the unit up to here it could be used. didnt know when it was comming to canada, none of the other reps even knew 1 word about the shit. (this was last season i would hope they have had some breakthrews)
That.Guy.S30
12-09-2002, 08:51 PM
well i was talkin about alpines satelite radio.. i think its called sirus.. or somethin.. im not sure.. but yea they have it in van.. u still gotaa pay for it tho..
00Civic
12-25-2002, 12:11 AM
yes it does work. I had worked on a customers car with it and worked fine.
Toms-Celica
12-26-2002, 06:50 PM
K, I just got a new deck built in with the Sirus uplink, how do I get it to work?
That.Guy.S30
12-27-2002, 12:10 AM
haha u have to go sign up and pay a fee.. and u have to live close to the us/canada baorder i believe.. or in van..
Toms-Celica
12-27-2002, 12:55 AM
Waste of my time then. BA!
That.Guy.S30
12-27-2002, 01:39 AM
i agree
plus u have to pay for it
MistaBrent
12-31-2002, 04:13 AM
got it the other day.

works like a charm
Hakkola
01-01-2003, 06:14 PM
Originally posted by TomTom
ithe pioneer mobile electronics rep for western canada told me that it wasnt yet, but what some people were doing was if they had somtone in the states that could hook it up than send the unit up to here it could be used. didnt know when it was comming to canada, none of the other reps even knew 1 word about the shit. (this was last season i would hope they have had some breakthrews)

Maybe that's why it worked, her dad lives in Florida and got it for her for christmas last year:dunno:

It's satallite so it shouldn't matter where in canada you are.