[Rob Hood]

OK, I'm up for renewal on my XM subscription, and I've got free Sirius in my VW Jetta for a few more days. Since sampling the Sirius for the last couple of months, I do like their music selection (classic rock and country stations primarily) better than XM. Both carry the same newstalk stations I listen to as well. I do like XM's traffic coverage better than Sirius' for the Phoenix area, however, although IMO neither does a better job of traffic coverage than the local AM/FM stations. Sirius has NASCAR, but since I'm no longer making 7-hour road trips, that's not necessarily a high priority for me. My XM is portable between my truck and Z, but the Jetta is integral to the OE radio and I would rather be portable (which I know I can get with Sirius as well).

So, who has which one and likes/dislikes? Is it a tomay-to/tomah-to issue? Less filling? Tastes great?

[Rob Hood]

That's interesting about the FM transmitter for XM. That's what I use in the Z since it came with a CD-only radio, whereas the truck has the cassette adapter for its XM transmitter. The cassette adapter sounds just like it's an OE sat radio, but the FM transmitter drives me nuts having to search for the right channel just to get rid of the AM static. When I was driving across LA, I'd have to constantly change the FM transmitter's channel just to keep the XM reception. It was no problem in the desert...

Also, RIGHT IN FRONT OF MY HOUSE, the XM signal cuts in and out. The Sirius does not, but does drop out while going under two (and only those two) bridges.