Has anyone used this on your trawler yet? Is the placement of the antenna an issue? Terry Hoy Meridian Wittholz 40 Kalamazoo, MI

Terry, I've used what I believe to be a similar service called Worldspace, in Asia. We used a portable with an attached patch antenna in an open cockpit so that we could get BBC World Service out of range of the FM signal. The antenna does need to be aligned with the satellite but not so accurately that pitching and rolling affect the sound. regards Simon __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com

on 4/5/02 2:57 PM, Terry Hoy at THOY@TELE-CONNECT.COM wrote: > Has anyone used this on your trawler yet? Is the placement of the antenna > an issue? > > Terry Hoy > Meridian > Wittholz 40 > Kalamazoo, MI > Terry, I purchased a Sony XM radio for use on my trawler, but haven't installed it there yet. I am using it in my car, and it works great. It has a magnet mount and is on the top of the car. They say for home use you just have to let it have a southerly unobstructed view. If you can get it on top, there is no orientation problem, it is omnidirectional. I'm sure you could leave the antenna inside and it would work as long as it didn't have metal to the south of it. John Traveller Roughwater 45 Lake Geneva, WI