Satellite Radio - Recommendations?
Hi All, I'm looking for input. We are thinking about satellite radio (after chewing up our cell phone batteries using Pandora on our recent trip). There are plenty of threads here about antenna plac...
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Hi Everyone,
Just checking back in with our solution in case anyone does a search on this topic.
So we remembered why we were thinking satellite rather than Pandora: when we have the phone plugged in to the 12v charger we get noise in the input and can't hear the music. So therefore we can't charge the phone at the same time as listening.
We thought about a really long charge cord to tap into another 12v outlet away from the dash, but that seemed like a pain and a tripping hazard (not to mention a loss in charge over a really long run of cord)
We also decided that we really don't want/need satellite radio any time outside of the RV and that the in-dash units are really expensive.
SO...we put in a bluetooth stereo. Now we can set the phone to a Pandora station and plug it in to charge in an outlet back in the coach and bluetooth it to the stereo. This is the stereo we bought:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0051GN8JI/ref=oh_details_o01_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Not high zoot by any means, but it is working well so far!
So thanks again for all of the thoughts and feedback on this thread. It really helped in noodling on a good solution.
Just checking back in with our solution in case anyone does a search on this topic.
So we remembered why we were thinking satellite rather than Pandora: when we have the phone plugged in to the 12v charger we get noise in the input and can't hear the music. So therefore we can't charge the phone at the same time as listening.
We thought about a really long charge cord to tap into another 12v outlet away from the dash, but that seemed like a pain and a tripping hazard (not to mention a loss in charge over a really long run of cord)
We also decided that we really don't want/need satellite radio any time outside of the RV and that the in-dash units are really expensive.
SO...we put in a bluetooth stereo. Now we can set the phone to a Pandora station and plug it in to charge in an outlet back in the coach and bluetooth it to the stereo. This is the stereo we bought:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0051GN8JI/ref=oh_details_o01_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Not high zoot by any means, but it is working well so far!
So thanks again for all of the thoughts and feedback on this thread. It really helped in noodling on a good solution.
