Sirius Satellite Radio

In my former life, pre-kiddie-winkies, I used to be a radio engineer.  I love all types of radios: AM, FM, shortwave, digtal, amateur, VLF that let you listen to things like ‘sprites’ and ‘whistlers’ and other phenomena that is not completely understood by science… I used to design car radio electronics at Delco Electronics and this was a job that I loved very much.

So anyhow, we rented a car that had a Sirius satellite radio in it.  OK, I am sold on satellite radio now.  I never thought that I would want one of these for a lot of reasons, like the monthly subscription fee for starters…  But after a couple of days of playing with it, I was hooked.  You can listen to BBC Radio 1, and also to Fox News, and even Radio Sweden was on for a while…along with a mind-blowing selection of music.  Don’t like what you are hearing?  Just tune to a new channel and you are basically guaranteed to find something you like, with NO COMMERCIALS.  And with CD-quality sound. 

There are weather and traffic reports for major American cities, along with some NPR classic programming, like ‘Car Talk’, and loads of sports programming.  And Howard Stern, too. (But don’t let the kiddie-winkies listen to Howard because he’s not censored on Sirius and the F-bomb is dropped every other second…You can turn on Radio Disney at this point.)

Too cool.  Gotta have it.  Hope it catches on so I can get one someday. Try Sirius online free for 3 days…