# I got my Howard back. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 30, 2006, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-my-howard-back/342191 "2006-01-30T10:26:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DrMemory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DrMemory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrMemory)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-my-howard-back/342191/1 "2006-01-30T10:26:17Z")
So I moved from Los Angeles almost 6 years ago to move to the Great White North to move in with the future Mrs. Memory. There was very little about L.A. I was gonna miss. I was, however, gonna miss hearing Howard Stern. I’ve gone without for these past few years, because there was just no way to hear him. I just got me a Sirius radio, dialed it in and in less than an hour, now I will have my Howard back. Mundane, sure. Silly, no doubt. But for me having Stern on in the morning again will be kinda like _Going home_ . I’m a very happy man. The local radio talent has much to be desired. There are those of you whom probly feel the same about Howard, but, I for one, am So looking forward to having my old comfortable radio morning team back again. That is all. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kinoons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a698b9/32.png) [@kinoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kinoons)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-my-howard-back/342191/2 "2006-01-30T12:47:34Z")
welcome to the wonderful world of Sirius! You’ll quickly despise FM radio in any form. Even without Howard, Sirius is the best $12.95 a month i’ve ever spent. ---
**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-my-howard-back/342191/3 "2006-01-30T19:15:12Z")
Word up! Howard and that wacky Sirius Shuffle station are the soundtrack of my day. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-my-howard-back/342191/4 "2006-01-30T21:01:26Z")
What’s the Sirius Shuffle Station? I love love love my Sirius. I will admit it spends most of its time tuned into 21, 22, and 8, but I like 100 in the mornings as well. AND, I can get TWO CBC stations on it! Yay! ---
**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-my-howard-back/342191/5 "2006-01-30T21:07:52Z")
> [@GingerOfTheNorth](#): > > What’s the Sirius Shuffle Station? > > I love love love my Sirius. I will admit it spends most of its time tuned into 21, 22, and 8, but I like 100 in the mornings as well. AND, I can get TWO CBC stations on it! Yay! Channel 12. It supposedly randomly shuffles songs on its other channels, but I don’t think it’s too random - you never get anything Spanish but Macerena, for example. But, and this was AWESOME, I had Conway Twitty back to back with AD/DC this morning. That tickles me. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-my-howard-back/342191/6 "2006-01-30T21:23:37Z")
I love Sirius too - so much that when I bought my new car, the very next day I took it to get a new receiver installed. I was going into withdrawal after only 24 hours. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-my-howard-back/342191/7 "2006-01-30T23:45:52Z")
Dave got me the Xact Visor for Christmas. It’s not hard-wired, which means I can get the home kit and bring it into the house. ---
**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-my-howard-back/342191/8 "2006-01-30T23:47:18Z")
I have the, I dunno, Sportster. It’s plug and play also. I have a dock for the car and one for the office/home. ---
**Author:** ![DrMemory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DrMemory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrMemory)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-my-howard-back/342191/9 "2006-01-31T01:30:11Z")
Dear friends… I got my first Sirius receiver just around the first days of Howard, but much to my chagrin, the receivers in Canadia do not get Howard 100 :eek: I had to return that receiver, but for a week or so, I introduced myself to the sirius world. Now, I wouldn’t have bought into the whole Satillite radio world, if it hadn’t been for Howard. I hafta say, though, it’s a wonderful thing. Being from L.A., for years (decades) I had old time radio shows on KNX at 9 pm. I now have a 24hr a day old -radio-shows- station. 🙂 I also just love shuffle and channel 16 (the vault) which is a great source of old school album side Rock. Stuff I haven’t heard in years (if ever) by artists I dig. well, well worth the few cents a day. I’m in an area that has only 6 stations…all of them…(suck) ☹ I like living in the “Boonies” but I love being here now that I have some music to get me through my day and My Howard. I really don’t know how long it might take me to get thru ALL the channels. check it out dear friends. I’m REALLY not an employee or a shill for Sirius. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-my-howard-back/342191/10 "2006-01-31T01:35:49Z")
The coolest thing about Sirius is when I find myself listening to the Showtunes station (77- with the world’s most annoying host, Seth Rudetsky) and thinking “Oh jiminy, are they playing from _Wicked_ again?”- before Sirius I’d have been astonished beyond endurance to hear Broadway coming from my speakers when I didn’t have a CD in. My favorite channels are Standards (Rosemary Clooney, Dean Martin, etc.- 75), Comedy (I actually prefer the “clean” comedy to the “raw”- for every Richard Pryor or George Carlin on the latter there are 10 people who seem to think crudity is in and of itself funny), Gay (106- Frank de Caro & Derek/Romaine- Michelangelo Signorile makes me understand just a little better why so many people dislike gays) and the various news stations (CNN and Bloomberg especially). It is totally worth the money. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-my-howard-back/342191/11 "2006-01-31T03:06:56Z")
> [@DrMemory](#): > > Dear friends… > I got my first Sirius receiver just around the first days of Howard, but much to my chagrin, the receivers in Canadia do not get Howard 100 :eek: I had to return that receiver, but for a week or so, I introduced myself to the sirius world. Now, I wouldn’t have bought into the whole Satillite radio world, if it hadn’t been for Howard. I hafta say, though, it’s a wonderful thing. Being from L.A., for years (decades) I had old time radio shows on KNX at 9 pm. I now have a 24hr a day old -radio-shows- station. 🙂 I also just love shuffle and channel 16 (the vault) which is a great source of old school album side Rock. Stuff I haven’t heard in years (if ever) by artists I dig. well, well worth the few cents a day. I’m in an area that has only 6 stations…all of them…(suck) ☹ I like living in the “Boonies” but I love being here now that I have some music to get me through my day and My Howard. I really don’t know how long it might take me to get thru ALL the channels. check it out dear friends. I’m REALLY not an employee or a shill for Sirius. People in Canada can get the American Sirius service if they provide an American address. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-my-howard-back/342191/12 "2006-01-31T03:09:32Z")
I’ve got both XM and Sirius. Well worth the money. ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-my-howard-back/342191/13 "2006-01-31T12:12:23Z")
This thread is better-suited for our satellite forum, Cafe Society. I’ll move it for ya’. ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-my-howard-back/342191/14 "2006-01-31T13:40:21Z")
I left my XACT received at work yesterday and tried to listen to Diamond Dave in FreeFM this morning… I would surely give up the privilege of hearing rather than listen to another second of his senseless drivel. In only a few weeks, I have become a Satellite snob! ---
**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-my-howard-back/342191/15 "2006-01-31T13:51:46Z")
You know what it’s great for? Road trips! I had to go to my mom’s a few weeks ago - she’s 4 hours away - and it really made the trip much more pleasant. AND, I happened upon an unadvertised Howard dress rehearsal on the way over. Have I mentioned that I’ve been a listener since W **N** BC? ---
**Author:** ![DrMemory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DrMemory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrMemory)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-my-howard-back/342191/16 "2006-01-31T14:07:26Z")
Yes, I CAN get the American version of sirius here. I too, thought that all I had to have is an American address, but turns out you also need a receiver from the states. The model I bought in Canadia got all BUT Howard’s stations ☹ . I then had to wait til a relative recently went South of the border to get me a replacememt. All is well now. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-my-howard-back/342191/17 "2006-01-31T18:22:07Z")
Totally ignorant here; how would I get a satellite radio in my car? Do I get it installed in place of the car radio? I can’t have both, right? What’s a ballpark amount on buying and installing the receiver in my car? ---
**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-my-howard-back/342191/18 "2006-01-31T18:30:42Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > Totally ignorant here; how would I get a satellite radio in my car? Do I get it installed in place of the car radio? I can’t have both, right? > > What’s a ballpark amount on buying and installing the receiver in my car? Not exactly the answer to your question, but mine is, as I mentioned, plug and play. It is not permanently installed, which is how I wanted it. It’s the “Sportster” model and it plays through my FM radio in my car, in the office and at home. I have a car dock and a home dock. Total cost with the extra dock, after rebate, was $150 (there’s a monthly charge for the service as well - $12.95+tax) It is still not really satisfactorily set up in the car, but it’ll do. I could have had Tweeter set it up for an extra price and it would have been a little better, I’m sure. So, yes, you can have both a car radio and satellite radio at the same time. That being said, you can go to the Sirius website [www.sirius.com](http://www.sirius.com) and see a list of other models, including ones that are permanently installed in the car. According to Howard, a lot of the models are difficult to get right now. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-my-howard-back/342191/19 "2006-01-31T19:03:39Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > Totally ignorant here; how would I get a satellite radio in my car? Do I get it installed in place of the car radio? I can’t have both, right? > > What’s a ballpark amount on buying and installing the receiver in my car? What he said but don’t limit your choices. I have heard both but I prefer XM to Sirius. If you buy a GM car they come installed. ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-my-howard-back/342191/20 "2006-01-31T19:34:19Z")
> [@Caricci](#): > > Have I mentioned that I’ve been a listener since W **N** BC? [Pig Vomit]That’s W eennNNNNNN (bc)[/Pig Vomit] [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-my-howard-back/342191.md?page=2)