Sirius XM Portability

I don't know about a receiver that would use blue tooth to play through individual radios. But we have a Sirius receiver that I can switch from car to truck. It clips onto the vent. Somewhat of a pain to change the antenna wire from one vehicle to the other but it works for us.

Yes they have a couple of different types of receivers that are portable. I have this one: Onyx Plus. You can get an extra antenna for the other vehicle so you don't have to move it.

Or, if you have their Internet streaming package you can just stream from your phone to your car's receiver via an AUX cord or Bluetooth (if your motorhome and/or other vehicle have it). Using their streaming uses your data plan though, so be aware of that.

I have one that has an FM transmitter built in.

turbojimmy wrote:
Yes they have a couple of different types of receivers that are portable. I have this one: Onyx Plus. You can get an extra antenna for the other vehicle so you don't have to move it.

I have a similar one that I can move among bases I have in two vehicles and the house. If you get this type, be sure it has a provision for ala carte service. I got tired of fighting with them every year for a decent price that I switched to alacarte service. about $6?? a month for 50 stations. some of the stations I want are extra cost, IIRC 25 cents a month.
bumpy

We have two of the older Pioneer Innos. Battery powered so I can with head phones listen almost anywhere, easily moves from place to place and stores up to a thousand songs for those times XM is blocked. Check Ebay for used ones.

Side issue. You can save $$ by going to SiriusXM website and checking out their various packages. The little info from the car dealers and any renewal minders never discuss lesser costing programming. I switched from the full package to the "Mostly Music" package. IIRC, went from $16/mo to $10/mo and got rid of all the sports, comedy, news, and political garbage. I could have went less, but I wanted my 60's on 6, 70's on 7, etc. & that was the lowest package for that. I will have to investigate the ala cart deal. I only routinely listen to maybe 10 channels.

First trip with new camper, had no cell service at the site. So no radio via cell available.

turbojimmy wrote:
Yes they have a couple of different types of receivers that are portable. I have this one: Onyx Plus. You can get an extra antenna for the other vehicle so you don't have to move it.

Or, if you have their Internet streaming package you can just stream from your phone to your car's receiver via an AUX cord or Bluetooth (if your motorhome and/or other vehicle have it). Using their streaming uses your data plan though, so be aware of that.

Also keep in mind that you will have no Sirius/XM if you are somewhere you have no internet service on your phone.

I move my Sirus receiver between two different docking stations ("docks"). One dock is in the truck and the other is in the trailer.
- The trailer dock is wired to the trailer radio's Aux input. I have a panel antenna mounted to the top of my TV antenna mast that I rotate as needed for max signal (worked awesome up in the arctic).
- The truck dock is connected to the trucks radio via a "FM Antenna Adapter" (the truck radio doesn't have an Aux. input). Also works great, just have to set the FM radio to whatever frequency you have the modulator in the Sirus radio set to. Don't waste your time fiddling around with FM direct (wireless between the Sirius radio and your truck radio). I have a "trucker antenna" mounted to the canoe/kayak rack on top of the canopy which works well (also worked in the Arctic).
- IF you really want Bluetooth, there is a Bluetooth adapter available that you plug into the audio out port on the dock that transmits a Bluetooth signal.

All this stuff is available here.
They are very helpful and have prompt service.

BTW. Even though Sirius/XM is one company now, the two services use different satellite constellations. So if your travels might take you to Northern Canada and Alaska, stick with Sirius.

Hope this helps.

I stream sirius/xm through my iphone all the time on both internet/wifi and through the cell system. Just audio doesn't use much data. Can bluetooth through the dash radio

K Charles wrote:
I have one that has an FM transmitter built in.

What is the brand name?