I tried activating online through the AAA link and was unsuccessful. When I got to the payment screen there was a $15 charge for activation and nothing stated about an extra month.

Got mine in the mail today. CSR couldnt have been nicer & told me since I was swapping 1 radio for another there would be NO activation fee. (He mentioned to me this would be an ongoing rule) so free radio & free $30.....no-brainer! Thanks!

no remote in mine

didn't see it listed on the package contents either

sparkgem said:Did the remote come with this package. It looked like the box had been opened and the little tape tabs were replaced where the boxtop opens. This must have been a return. I just wanted to make sure the remote was included. How could it not be? I am pizzled!

I was wondering about that IR receiver on the front of the radio. But, no, I didn't get a remote, and I don't think it was supposed to include one. Looks like they're pretty cheap on fleabay, though.

Well I am happy. Old remote works on new radio. Got service transferred, 1 month free, $30 gift card applied, activation fee waived. Thanks.

do we have to get everything hooked up and installed prior to calling and activate?

Got in on the radio with shipping for $.01.

I called the AAA activations phone number at 888-274-7487 and mentioned that a "friend of mine" was able to activate for 3 months with no activation fee for a total of $20.97. I didn't mention anything about being a AAA member.

She wasn't able to find any deal and I finally said to just process it at the normal monthly fee for 3 months with one free month comped and no activation. The total would have been $38.85.

She put me on hold to process the order. When she came back she said she found the first deal while trying to apply comps. So she gave it to me at $20.97 for 3 months with free activation. Very YMMV, hope my story helps someone.

gaore said:Buddies, I have to say the Sirius' satellite signal is too bad...

I am using a home antenna... Every several seconds, shows

" Acquiring signal ".

It seems like the signal is better in the evening than in the daytime.

I have tried to adjust the direction of home antenna many many

times.

How about you?

You need a wide view of the sky. Unlike the XM Radio satellites, the Sirius satellites are not in a geostationary orbit. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius_Satellite_Radio

Can any one confirm whether it works online?

Stevie said:If you have AAA, actvation is free, as well as an additional month of service. You should be able to do it online through AAA.

overfedexed said:ANightShopper said:rileymartin said:WideOpenSpaces said:robertsotx said:At rileymartin's suggestion I'm posting what I found inside the radio so far.

The button switches are not the solder on kind I hoped they would be. The are just a disk of metal taped on to the circuit board.

There is a receiver for the remote control and the bezel for it is a cool violet/purple color instead of red like I have seen in TV's and other devices.

There are two places where connectors might be soldered on for programming or something.

JP1 has 6 pins labeled RESET, SCLK, (two pins, one or both marked +), MISO, MOSI. Looks like an SPI Connector.

JP2 has 4 pins labeled TX, (two pins, one or both marked +), RX. It also has two larger solder areas on both sides of the pins labeled GND. There is an arrow coming off of pin 1 (TX) that points to the text "3V3_MAIN".

There are 5 test points in the top middle of the board marked 3V#_BB, TDI, TMS, TCK, TDO
U1 is an Atmel Mega32L

U4 is marked 8727GED 77ARR6X

U5 is marked 1010 A269 731

U6 is an RT9167A low dropout and low noise micropower regulator

U13 is an STA240AE Channel & Source Decoder

U14 is a Spansion AL016D70BF102 which may be in the S71AL016D family

U15 is marked 0732PPR V54C3128804VBJ7IPC

U16 is an Atmel AT8UA1068. It has the Sirius dog logo so it is probably a custom chip.

U23 is an STA210 RF Front-End

The LCD is a Varitronix COG-IZT2202-01. COG means "chip on glass". It has a 20 pin connector. The first line has smaller pixels than the last two lines. Each of the three lines are made of 16 5x7 pixel characters.

In addition to the LEDs in the LCD display, there are ten amber surface mount LEDs to light the buttons.

I sure hope the audio quality on the pay channels is LOTS better than the quality of channel 184 as it is FAR from hi fidelity sound.

Did Riley tell you how to board the Biaviian mothership too?

he has to buy a symbol first. hope you all listened to my show last night on your free radios robertsotx, did you see any way to adjust the useless weak fm transmitter's power or maybe stick a better antenna in it?FM has become very usefull to me. My sirius has some high pitch noise at the AUX, which doesn't show up at FM.

Get this The FIX it should do the trick. There is also a Crutchfield, free shipping, Visa card code floating around here somewhere.While your fix might be an easy solution, it is not the best one. As the noise is coming from the cheaply designed lighter power adapter, your fix won't just reduce the noice but also discount already compressed audio. The better approach would be using a regular wall power supply with a 12 - 220V car converter. This combination provides cristal clear sound on any level of volume.