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I use the supplied antenna for the satalite inside my car on the dash. I couldent find anywhere to mount the supplied mount, and I ended up buying a kuda mount for my car.On the positive side. I didnt see the need in running wires for a unit that can move from car to car with ease.on another note, if my wife and I are driving somewhere in seperate cars, she can tune in my satallite on her radio, if she is following or even infront of me. Many station presets, good clarity, nice sound from the boombox, fairly simple operation. At times, you will pick up another persons broadcast, if you are tuned to the same FM channel, and they will pick yours up (has happened several times). I mean that you will be listing to your station, then all of a sudden you are picking up something else, but the receiver still says that you are on your channel.My main gripes with this unit would be that it gets hot, hard to read display if it gets hot, or is in the sun, and is a bit bulky. I got this receiver and boombox as a christmas gift.
as with all FM transmitters, some sound quality is lost in the transmission, but not too bad. I can not receive reception in my house (possably from being built in the 40's and is all true plaster walls) in the car it works pretty good. hard to read display at times, unit gets hot when on, at times the FM transmitter dosent send a strong signal. I am now on the hunt for some sort of device that will make this unit portable, or maybe a whole new set up that is a bit smaller.
Why would I want another crappy radio. As soon as I get my replacement I'm selling it and getting one through Sirius. Please anyone reading this take these reviews to heart get a radio directly through Sirius.com or a company with a good return/relpacement policy. If for some reason you do get through this and they want to replace it make sure you tell them to send you a shipping lable. You have your radio replaced in no time with Sirius. XACT will just keep sending you broken ones. I am going on my 3rd radio since November 3rd, 2005.
I went back to the BBB and today I got a call from XACT and they won't refund my money but they want to send me an XTR2. I could not get anywhere with XACT so I went to the Better Business Bureau and a few days later I got a call from some customer service chick who had an attitude. I had to pay to send the radio back, when the replacement came guess what.It was broken, no audio. You should not have to pay for something that they made terrible in the first place.
Fortunately, it didn't also destroy that second power plug in the back of my Subaru. So, now the XACT car charger does not work at all and it has an obvious burnt plastic smell to it. It has worked OK up until last week when I was driving along listening and starting smelling plastic burning and the unit stopped working. Thank goodness that this XACT car charger did not cause an electrical fire; at least it burnt itself out before causing any further damage. I guess I'll have to contact XACT to get the car charger replaced on warranty. The bottom line on this review is I would recommend against the XACT equipment. I also bought the XACT Boom Box that this receiver plugs into and that works great.
The car charger always got hot, but it wasn't until it actually destroyed my cigarette lighter/power plug that I realize the XACT car charger is a hazard to using in your car. Its also good that the XACT Receiver unit didn't fry when the XACT car charger did because at least I can listen to Sirius at home on my XACT Boom Box. I don't know if I want to risk using this piece of equipment in my car again, because it is already going to cost me to have that cigarette lighter/power plug repaired that the XACT car charger destroyed. I wish I had read reviews about this equipment before buying it, but when I signed up for Sirius, this was the main equipment for sale. I have a Subaru Forester with the cigarette lighter/power plug up front and a second power plug in the back, so after the front cigarette lighter/power plug stopped working, I plugged the XACT car charger into the back power plug and that is where the XACT car charger actually fried itself. Earlier, my cigarette lighter/power plug in the front of my car stopped working altogether which I now realize is due to the XACT car charger having somehow destroyed the cigarette lighter/power plug; I checked to see if the fuse had just blown, but the fuse is fine and now I can't even get my cell phone charger to work in the cigarette lighter/power plug. The XACT receiver unit heats up tremendously and will sometimes "freeze up" during a broadcast so that I have to turn it off and then on again to "reboot" the receiver so that I can keep listening to Sirius.
Since I bought the XACT car/home kit and the Boom Box, I'll keep using it and contact XACT to replace the car charger, but I can't recommend this product to anyone with good conscious on my part.
I called Sirius. nothing. they claim it's not their service but sounds like a defect. this unit is not worth the plastic it was assembled with. turn it on and off, leave it off. I'll be returning this piece of sh-t soon as I get hold of customer service where i purchased it. for some unknown reason it plays for about an hour then "acquiring signal" kicks in. avoid XACT products
My only problem is the reception using the FM transmitter. So far so good. Does anybody know if this unit is compatible with a cassette adapter
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