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SIRIUS Sportster 5 Satellite Radio Receiver with Vehicle Kit
From Sirius Satellite Radio
List Price: $169.99
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Customer Reviews

Love this receiver!
The Sportster 5 is a neat little receiver. Lots of features, love the color screen. Easy to install and use. The only complaint is the small size of the buttons and they are a little hard to push. Overall, very satisfied that I chose this one!

I am in LOVE.
After much consideration I finally broke down and bought into satellite ratio. I ended up purchasing the Sportster 5 because you can get the best of XM added to your Sirius package. So far the radio is great! I can’t believe how much I like. It looks really nice and is very easy to use. Reception is very good. I ended up having it professionally installed for a cleaner look and added the FM direct connection.

Frequent Problems
Perhaps I just got a bad receiver, but I’ve had problems with this receiver since about a month after purchase.

It’s never remembered my presets. It frequently gets stuck/hung up while updating channels, which was usually fixed by Sirius sending a reset signal to my receiver; however, this fix failed most recently, and the radio has been unusable for about a month now. It also started taking 15-30 seconds to start playing audio after start up saying it was “Acquiring Signal”. Finally, very weak FM signal unless you have the direct connect or whatever its called. I’ve heard Sirius sent out a product notice about this issue and perhaps its been fixed in newer versions.

Please note that the during all of this, the satellite receiver continually indicated full signal, so I don’t think it was a problem with bad install or bad signal.

I run out of patience dealing with Sirius’s customer service system, so I guess I’ll just buy a new receiver. The strange this is: I’ll probably buy this one again in hopes I just got a faulty unit.