WorldSpace Channels on XM

[Fritz Wue]

On the worldspace coverage maps it reads:

"WorldSpace Channels on XM"
http://www.worldspace.com/coveragemaps/index.html

What channels are on XM?
Sorry, I'm in europe and just curious.

Fritz

[Mark S.]

"Fritz Wue" <Friedrich.Wue@t-online.de> wrote in message
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> On the worldspace coverage maps it reads:
>
> "WorldSpace Channels on XM"
> http://www.worldspace.com/coveragemaps/index.html
>
> What channels are on XM?
> Sorry, I'm in europe and just curious.
>
> Fritz

You're allowed to be curious! :-) I'm curious about satellite radio outside
of North America so we're even!

XM's channels Ngoma, U-Pop and World Zone are produced cooperatively with
WorldSpace. I read somewhere that those channels which appear on XM are not
the same as the ones on WorldSpace elsewhere, but Americanized versions of
them. U-Pop is in one of my station presets in my XM radio; I enjoy it as
it has music which is popular in other places besides here. I've listened
to Ngoma and World Zone before but they're not really my favourite types of
music.

Regards,
Mark


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[Fritz Wue]

> XM's channels Ngoma, U-Pop and World Zone are produced cooperatively with
> WorldSpace. I read somewhere that those channels which appear on XM are
> not the same as the ones on WorldSpace elsewhere, but Americanized
> versions of them. U-Pop is in one of my station presets in my XM radio; I
> enjoy it as it has music which is popular in other places besides here.
> I've listened to Ngoma and World Zone before but they're not really my
> favourite types of music.

Mark, thank you!

I now found the XM website and after a lot of clicks ended up here:
http://www.xmradio.com/programming/full_channel_listing.jsp?sort=number

Yes, I know these three channels you mentioned from worldspace,
but as with you U-Pop is the only one I listen to from time to time.
Ngoma is quite ok for getting infos and a little feeling from the very
south.

I prefer Radio Caroline and Orbit Rock.

http://www.radiocaroline.co.uk/
http://www.listen.to/radiocaroline

http://www.worldspace.com/listennow/listen.html
http://www.worldspace.com/listennow/samples/orbitrock.mp3

I was missing the XM satellite's footprint on their website.
Is it of no interest, or is there a problem with the neighbours?

I will study their forum a little...
http://shop.xmfan.com/

Regards
Fritz

[Mark S.]

"Fritz Wue" <Friedrich.Wue@t-online.de> wrote in message
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> I now found the XM website and after a lot of clicks ended up here:
> http://www.xmradio.com/programming/full_channel_listing.jsp?sort=number

Yes, that's XM's website. Also, if you are interested Sirius' webpage is
www.sirius.com. If you want to listen to a bit of both, you can get a 3 day
free online streaming trial of XM and a week trial of Sirius. Here's XM's:
http://www.xmradio.com/xstream/ and for the one week trial of Sirius, go to
www.howardstern.com and click on the advertisement in the upper left,
something about "no censorship". The regular trial is 3 days but if you go
via the Howard Stern page you get one week instead.

> Yes, I know these three channels you mentioned from worldspace,
> but as with you U-Pop is the only one I listen to from time to time.
> Ngoma is quite ok for getting infos and a little feeling from the very
> south.
>
> I prefer Radio Caroline and Orbit Rock.
>
> http://www.radiocaroline.co.uk/
> http://www.listen.to/radiocaroline
>
> http://www.worldspace.com/listennow/listen.html
> http://www.worldspace.com/listennow/samples/orbitrock.mp3

I'll listen to these tomorrow. Right now, there are good shows on TV ;-)
I've heard a lot about Radio Caroline but never listened.

> I was missing the XM satellite's footprint on their website.
> Is it of no interest, or is there a problem with the neighbours?
>
> I will study their forum a little...
> http://shop.xmfan.com/

I think it is very much of interest to users but something the company keeps
tight lipped about. They also do not make public the locations of their
terrestrial repeaters, either. When asked, they'll tell you they provide
continuous coverage of the continental United States. However, XM and
Sirius have had to file EIRP footprint maps to the ITU so the information is
out there. Also, when XM and Sirius filed licence applications with the
CRTC in Canada, they also submitted footprint maps. Here's XM's footprint
maps:

XM Rock 115W
http://www.xmfan.com/album_pic.php?pic_id=8

XM Roll 85W
http://www.xmfan.com/album_pic.php?pic_id=9

Unfortunately XM's maps don't show much beyond the continental US. I've
heard from someone who has been able to pick up XM from the Azores! The 115
sat is below the horizon there but they could get a signal from the 85 deg W
sat. This is interesting because I cannot receive the 85 degree satellite
here; I am too far east but apparently there is a sidelobe when you get out
further. The 119 is only about 9 degrees above the horizon here so it is
impractical to have XM in the car so I keep it in the house. XM's
satellites both transmit the same thing at the same time. They are there to
provide spatial diversity to reduce dropouts while mobile.

I made a webpage which has some more XM footprint maps on it plus Sirius
footprint maps. Just scroll down to the bottom of it, as the links at the
top are just some terrestrial repeater field strength map experiments.

http://www.freewebs.com/vo1one/

There is another XM forum which is popular, too. www.xm411.com so you may
find some useful information there. The Sirius forum is
www.siriusbackstage.com. Sirius uses 3 sats in a Molniya orbit which is
kind of a figure 8 orbit. Two of the three sats are north of the equator at
all times. The third floats around South America charging or just taking a
break at night. This orbit allows them to be very high above the horizon,
often straight up for some so it is excellent for mobile reception. Both
Sirius and XM use the S band and LHCP. You'll find a lot of good
information on those sites but if you have any questions you can feel free
to ask here, too.

73!
Mark

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