Sirius radio in Alaska

Mine worked while I was near the ocean and had the sharkfin antenna facing south. When I was driving North, with the camper behind me, no reception. Driving with mountains to the south, also no reception... as I understand it, the satellite you're receiving from is pretty low on the horizon, so there's a lot higher likelihood of it being blocked.

A quick search found this forum...

XM-RADIO COVERAGE IN ALASKA

Doesn't look good for you...

One comment said if you have a dish less one foot in diameter you will be out of luck...

ROy Ken

I live in Alaska and bought a Sirius radio about six years ago because it's very easy to get too far from a radio station up here. Messed with it for six months, never did get it to work, sent it to a friend Stateside to use.

Bill

I have XM and in Alaska it worked most of the time. I would lose signal in Fairbanks if a mountain happened to be in the way or in town if a building blocked the signal. Lower Alaska and Yukon had no problem.

XM and Sirius use two completely different sets of satellites. The XM satellite group geosynchronous orbit, while Sirius has at least one satellite in a seriously inclined elliptical orbit who's max northern elevation is just off the coast of Alaska. While it's in the area receiption is probably pretty good, but it's not surprising that XM is flaky at best up there.

Ours worked between Tok and Anchorage and on the coast. Once we got north of Wasilla signal was very spotty.

Here's a link with a lot of info. Sorry, no link. Guess I can't post an IRV2 link on RV Net!!

Never really paid attention to where we were but some places Sirius worked, some places it did not. Listened to local radio when available for a little regional flavour. The rest of the time it was put the faithful 6 CD changer to work.

Tough going. Miss the cassettes played one at a time.

Ours was in and out at times, but worked heading south out of Prudhoe until we got close to the mountains.

Better off downloading some johnny Horton songs and make sure your ipod or phone is full of tunes and you have the adapter cord.
Only thing coming out of the radio in most places will be static.

Thanks to all....I guess we'll be listening to spotty Elvis. Maybe I could sing?