There are a few manufacturers who do make XM ready alarm clock radios. Audiovox and
If it is xm ready radio, then all you have to do is pay the monthly fee. You already have an xm radio and need nothing. Read you owner's manual. If you buy the xm radio from the dealer it will cost about $750.00 It is prewired for the 12 volt system of the Honda. The roady 2 radio you buy at wall-mart or elsewhere is set up with a 6 volt system. I bought my roady 2 at fry,s and fry,s instlled it for around $80.00. did a very nice job on installing it. The antenna was installed outside like roady suggested and hard wired the radio to the frount lighter using the 6 volt adaptor that the roady came with and wired it to the 12 volt system. Roady 2 has a sell right now, that if you buy one Roady 2 one can send off for a second one free.
XM and Sirius radios have there own devices, just like iPod has iHomes, XM and Sirius radios have portable radios that you can plug in your XM or Sirius radio to.
No they do not offer XM radios with removable face plates.
A wide range of radios made by many different manufacturers are able to pick up the XM service.
Delphi and Aluratek both make satellite radio-ready alarm clocks. They are both compatible with Sirius and XM.
XM radios usually cost around $100 to be installed in cars.
You can get satellite radios that can be installed in any vehicle from both Sirius and XM.
XM radios use signals transmitted by satellites in order to broadcast. A signal is broadcast from the ground station and sent to one of two XM satellites that then are able to broadcast the signal to all the receivers owned by XM customers on the ground. The satellites take the signal they are sent, which is basically a mass of encoded data, and descramble the audio as well as the encrypted information with it which includes such things as the song title, artist, and genre in order to send them to the personal receivers in the correct format.
XM radios usually cost two to five dollars for an additional box on top of your monthly subscription.
Sirius satellite radios, like XM radios, typically cost about $100 to be installed in cars.
Because XM radios and Sirius radios operate on differenty frequencies it will be necessary to purchase an updated receiver in order to get all of the channels each entity has offered. However, with the merger of the two companies, a subscriber will be able to pick and choose programming from both line ups.