Looking for best arrangement that will allow me to put a XM sat radio into
my boat. My searay currently has a standard FM/CD deck... Is there way to
mount an xm system into a standard size bracket?

"Jet Red" wrote in
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Looking for best arrangement that will allow me to put a XM sat radio
into my boat. My searay currently has a standard FM/CD deck... Is
there way to mount an xm system into a standard size bracket?



The XM Radio docking station has an FM stereo transmitter in it that will
send XM music to every FM radio tuned to it throughout the boat (and quite
a few boats down the dock!) Just set the boat's FM radio to the same dead
channel (we use 88.3 Mhz) that the XM is set to and you're online.

For a while, I had the XM little magnet mount antenna stuck to the side of
the fire extinguisher by the main hatch, but when it was cloudy out the
signal died. Now, it's stuck to the top of a steel plate up under the nav
station so it can pick up the satellite through the fiberglass
overhead/deck to keep it out of the salt. Works fine in SC that way, but
probably not farther north. The satellite signal will come through
fiberglass if there are no metal obstructions in the way out on deck, too
close.

Our XM docking station is stuck to the front of the nav station's
communications suite in between the M802 and M602 Icom radios. If you're
moored near your friends boat, they can listen to your transmissions on
their radios, too! I think the FM portable radio will even pick it up on
the beach with the boat anchored off the beach....(c;