XM Reception

[mtrevelino]

Has anyone noticed that the reception on the xm has deteriorated lately? In my office, I had "No Signal" all day, and on the way home from work it was dropping off. I emailed xm but I am sure that they will not admit to anything.

[Steve_R]

<tounge planted firmly in cheek> Satellite decay due to Global Warming. We all know that Global Warming is at the heart of all our issues. ;) :D

[bruce2000ltc]

Has anyone noticed that the reception on the xm has deteriorated lately? In my office, I had "No Signal" all day, and on the way home from work it was dropping off. I emailed xm but I am sure that they will not admit to anything.
Not till today. This past Friday, Saturday and Sunday I went down thru Southern Missouri and Arkansas; never lost my XM signal except when I was on the northern side of a high bluff. Coming home from work tonight the XM signal dropped out every minute or so.
Thought I had a problem with my XM antenna or radio until I read your post.
Hope you're right.

Bruce Hodges

[nightcrawler921]

My xm is doing it today also. May be related to sun spot or solar flare activity.

[Steve_R]

At the downlink freq of the satellite radio there would be no sunspot or solar flare issue to affect the signal. If there were, all satellite signals would be affected and not just XM.

[VitesseLT]

Happening in the Great Lakes today also. :(

[rovero]

Had issue with drop outs today in San Ramon CA.

[BEhrler]

I went to the XM radio site and this is what it said: http://www.xmradio.com/notices/signaldeg.xmc

[mtrevelino]

I went to the XM radio site and this is what it said: http://www.xmradio.com/notices/signaldeg.xmc
Thanks for your posting Butch. How did you find that on xm's website?

[BEhrler]

Thanks for your posting Butch. How did you find that on xm's website?

It was actually right on their home page. http://www.xmradio.com/

It was listed under quick links.

[scottydawg]

I got this in my email:
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Service Degradation Alert

You may be experiencing temporary degraded performance with your XM reception at the present time. XM is aware of the issue and working diligently to resolve it as soon as possible. We anticipate full signal strength will be restored by early Tuesday morning.
#######################################

[jhsonderb]

I got this in my email:

Service Degradation Alert

You may be experiencing temporary degraded performance with your XM reception at the present time. XM is aware of the issue and working diligently to resolve it as soon as possible. We anticipate full signal strength will be restored by early Tuesday morning.
I got the same email in Chicago. My wife was ready to cancel the subscription to XM because it was so bad yesterday.

[messenger13]

Just yesterday I started shopping for my very first XM receiver, and then I read this thread... :( I assuming from the tone of the comments here that this kind of thing is very unusual with XM, yes? (Please tell me "yes"!)

[patroa1]

OK, YEEEESSSS!:rotf:

[KayGee]

Just yesterday I started shopping for my very first XM receiver, and then I read this thread... :( I assuming from the tone of the comments here that this kind of thing is very unusual with XM, yes? (Please tell me "yes"!)

YES it is very unusual. First time in 1.5 years for me. I love my XM and haven't bought a CD in over a year.

[jhsonderb]

Just yesterday I started shopping for my very first XM receiver, and then I read this thread... :( I assuming from the tone of the comments here that this kind of thing is very unusual with XM, yes? (Please tell me "yes"!)
Haven't experienced a problem other than yesterday with XM reception. I just got a Streetpilot 2820 and the GXM-30 Radio/Antenna and installed it yesterday. I was going nuts for a while. Then my wife came home complaining about her car XM radio reception. It made me feel good about my 2820 issue but SHE really made me go nuts with her griping. The 2820 with the GXM-30 works very well by the way. I put the antenna in my tank bag for now.

[mtrevelino]

XM seems to back online!

[jhsonderb]

XM seems to back online!
I just received an email from XM staing the following:

"XM Radio Resumes Normal Levels of Service

XM Satellite Radio has resumed normal levels of service for customers who experienced outages or significantly degraded service starting yesterday.

The problem occurred during the loading of software to a critical component of the satellite broadcast system, which resulted in a temporary loss of signal from one of the company’s satellites.

After you turn on your XM radio, please allow five to ten minutes to reacquire the XM signal.

XM apologizes for any inconvenience this has caused."

[messenger13]

Oh . . . so I can continue with my purchase now?! :D

[Lzyellodog]

XM actually sent out three emails to me over the last two days. I noticed the problme on my way to work yesterday. It misse dit while it was out.