Portable Sirius XM:. Anyone With Experience With This?

I currently drive part time for a great company that utilizes all Cascadias with one model or the other of Sirius radios installed. On any given run, I may slip seat in a truck where the full time guy has a Sirius subscription (yeah!) or may not be paying for one (boo!). I am considering paying for their portable version of receiver that will simply plug in the front aux input of any of the trucks' radios and then I will always have satellite radio available. Don't really care about having it hooked up at home or in my personal vehicle, even though it will afford me the ability to do that. Anyone ever used these units and want to tell me if it was worth it?

I don't particularly like my sirius. The reception is hit or miss.

It may be my own fault however, since the instructions say to route the antenna outside and I've been too lazy to do that and it just rests on the dash.

Although to my defense the instructions are for cars and trucks and not tractors. Lol.

There not bad units my first one went bad after 6 months the replacement is still going strong 2+ years. It come with a little antana that has a sticker pad that you need to put some wear. You can also just program if to work on radio frequency one less cord to take in and out of the truck.

I bought the receiver on Amazon. The cheapest one. Around $30.00. comes with everything you need. Antenna wire is 20 or 25 feet long. Neefs to be mounted outside ( it is magnetic) mine is on the steel mount on the back of the cab where the gps dome is mounted. A bit of creative routing got it in the cab. Paid $240 for 1 year all access subscription. Worth every penny to me.

I have a portable unit that connects to my radio's aux input, and it works great. I use bungee cords and CB mounting plates to position the antennae in my cab. On my Freightliner, I had to play with the position of the antennae fairly regularly, depending on what way I was driving. The light fixtures and cabinet support struts interfered with signal fairly regularly, though I could make it work reasonably well.

In my 2016 Kenworth, I have the bungees running between the overhead cabinets above the driver and passenger seats, and I almost never have any sort of signal problem. The Freightliner storage space above the front seats is not strong enough to support bungees, even with just a little bit of pressure pulling them together. The cabinet frames will pop out.

Satellite Radio is worth every penny.