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    Default Do the XM satelite radio's work in Canada?

    I have been looking into them, but I heard they don't work in Canada... Is that true? Any experiences?

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    nope... not yet...
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    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.
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    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....=0&pgSize=10#1


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    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

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    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....mp;pgSize=10#1
    I think it works if you're within a certain distance to the US border.

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    they work rigth now in some parts of van.. u gotta pay a yearly fee of 15 bucks... or around there
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    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)
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    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..
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    yes it does work. I had worked on a customers car with it and worked fine.

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    K, I just got a new deck built in with the Sirus uplink, how do I get it to work?
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    preludes are definately not slow.. they are the corvettes of the honda 4cylinder world..they float

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    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..
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    Waste of my time then. BA!
    Originally posted by Ridelikeme

    preludes are definately not slow.. they are the corvettes of the honda 4cylinder world..they float

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    i agree
    plus u have to pay for it
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    got it the other day.

    works like a charm

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    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

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

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