I live in the northwest section of Atlanta, GA, and have noticed a significant decrease in signal over the past few days. I believe one of their repeaters is down, but I called and neither representative with whom I spoke had no idea what I was talking about. Any other suggestions?
Atlanta Repeater Down?
- Thread starter GARich74
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You can check out DogStar.
DogstarRadio.com Sirius Radio Satellite and Repeater Map
Atlanta has several repeaters. Some are shown as inactive, but I don't know how long they have been that way.
DogstarRadio.com Sirius Radio Satellite and Repeater Map
Atlanta has several repeaters. Some are shown as inactive, but I don't know how long they have been that way.
I have heard eventually repeaters may be eliminated one by one. I hope I am incorrect in your case.
IdRatherBeSkiing
Sherbert is NOT and NEVER WILL BE ice cream.
That is stupid. With the XM sat pattern, you need more repeaters not less. I suspect some may be consolodated. No point having an XM repeater and a Sirius repeater when you can have 1 SXM repeater.
One wonders, how much longer are the XM Birds going to be in the air, and what are SiriusXM's plans for future satellite orbits? I suspect they will go with the Original Sirius Configuration...
IdRatherBeSkiing
Sherbert is NOT and NEVER WILL BE ice cream.
It's the other way around. Currently Sirius has replaced 1 of their active sats with an XM-style bird (they used to have a pattern where they had 2/3 birds active on those wonky orbits now they have 1/3). Within a year, they will replace the other. New XM & Sirius birds will be capable of broadcasting the whole spectrum. Even if they did nothing, current Sirius birds have only 1-2 years of life left in them.
Ok, thx.
I guess that is superior for home listening, but, I like the small repeater footprint that Sirius had going on...
I guess that is superior for home listening, but, I like the small repeater footprint that Sirius had going on...
IdRatherBeSkiing
Sherbert is NOT and NEVER WILL BE ice cream.
If you have a S or Sish facing window with unobstructed view of the sky, the XM style is best. You get a lock and you will keep it 100% of the time. However, if you have a N window or a blocked view of the sky, the Sirius model was better however strength of signal will vary. With the XM style, more buildings will block the signal so to avoid dropouts while driving you need more repeaters. As they switch to this bird config they SHOULD be adding more repeaters. I don't think they are.
For home I much prefer the XM method.
While driving, though, Sirius works a whole lot better. Large trees would block out XM in my car and, generally, I have a better view of at least one of the satellites with Sirius while driving.
I wish they'd keep both.
While driving, though, Sirius works a whole lot better. Large trees would block out XM in my car and, generally, I have a better view of at least one of the satellites with Sirius while driving.
I wish they'd keep both.
IdRatherBeSkiing
Sherbert is NOT and NEVER WILL BE ice cream.
For me, at home, I get XM only by repeater. Sirius has no repeater but can pick up SAT signal from my N facing window (not as good as when they had 2 SATs but still there). When Sirius turns off their geosync SATs, I will lose my Sirius reception since they have not added Sirius repeaters.