Audivox XM Reciever

[FJRocket]

I have now gone through THREE docking stations on my Delphi XM radios due to failure of that little POS circuit board in the cig plug. THREE of them. Can I find just the power plug? NooOOooo. So I have to buy a new docking station for my bike, again, at $50? Bullcrap. I'm tired of Delphi and ready for a change.

I can buy an Audiovox XM online and get the whole shootmatch for $80. That includes all the docking stuff.

Has anyone tried the Audiovox unit?

Please don't recommend Sirius or a Roady to me. There's lots of options out there. I just want to see if anyone has Audiovox experience of the XM kind (as opposed to the CC kind). Next choice is Roady2, but hey, maybe I wanna be different...

And Oh, how I hate not being able to go back into the title and correcting my typo. Dangit.

 

[Grumpy]

No experience with the Audiovox, but had your experience with the POS circuit board in the cigarette plug that came with my Roady2. I bought a 3rd party power supply and have had zero problems with it. I attributed the circuit board problem to it not being designed to handle the increased vibration on a motorcycle. I can pnly imagine how short it's life would be on a V twin!

 

[FJRocket]

Grumpy, do you remember where you got the third party power plug? I just assumed that the Delphi power cord had some proprietary circutry and just any old power cord just wouldn't work. I'll have to do a little more research on that one, I guess.

Yeah, that's why I wasn't heading for the Roady. I figured it would have the same plug and the same POS circuit board and fail the same way. Although I can get one at Walmart with a mount and power plug for under $50.

I also have an old FM transmitter power cord that I can use. But it is very bulky. That concept for the original Skyfi sucked, too. Oh well, live an learn.

Ok, found a Skyfi replacement cord, but still not crazy about having the same ol' same ol' happen.

I have some generic cords at home that convert to 6v. I'll give that a try.

Audiovox anyone? Hmmmm?

 

[Rogue]

Try XM411.com and scroll down to shopping. they should have power cords. I use a 3rd party hard wired power suppy for my pioneer XM.

 

[Grumpy]

FJRocket, I bought the 6 volt converter from 2 Wheel [email protected] As I recall he has several variations and I went with the one that was easiest for me to wire. He's not cheap, but I've been running it without a problem for almost a year. The origonal POS that came with the Roady 2 lasted less than a month.

Jim

 

[FJRocket]

Jim, thanks for that. I've since dredged out my old FM "modutalor" POS that I got trying to avoid the cassette adapter in my car. I was able to fit that monstrosity under the tupperware. I think I'll run that til it croaks, then jump to another cord or a different receiver. One that buffers a couple minutes would be nice.

Guess no one is using the Audiovox, and that is going on the back burner anyway....