XM Roady Home Kit

Trendy bought me a XM Roady Home Kit so that I may listen to my favorite XM stations in the car and at home. It is awesome. The home kit includes power adapter, y-adapter RCA cable, and antenna. The only drawback of the home kit is finding a suitable window location to place the antenna to catch the satellite signal. The antenna does come with a very long cable so that the unit can still be relatively close to your stereo receiver. I wanted to use my XM in my office. I did have to move my stereo system to the other side of the room to catch the signal from the window on that side. I did not want the antenna cable running across the middle of the room. After an hour of rearranging, I got XM running in my office. The home kit cost $40 which is not bad considering it also comes with a $20 remote.

The Roady on the home kit with the remote.

XM via the tape input of Onkyo receiver. Sounds great!

Roady showing perfect signal strength.

The antenna by the window pointing towards the south east direction.