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kathiw

Dec 24, 2005, 4:50 PM

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XM radio near Guadalajara airport?

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I'm a no-tech type, so forgive me if this is a dumb question.
I'll be in Guad. for 3 months, about ( I'm told ) 15 min. from the airport, in El Castillo.
Would being near an airport have anything to do w. quality of xm reception?

1st. post - nervous :>) Thanks, Kathi in Vernon B.C.

johanson / Moderator

Dec 24, 2005, 5:03 PM

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Don't worry about the airport. Mine works fine here in Ajijic. I say this to you while listening to CHJM 730 AM Vancouver, on my Star Choice Receiver.

Your XM Radio will work fine as long as you have line of site to the South with an upward look angle of about 60 degrees to one of the XM satellites

kathiw

Dec 24, 2005, 5:08 PM

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Thanks! Also, Merry Christmas to you, and to all at Mexconnect! kathiw Vernon B.C.

johanson / Moderator

Dec 24, 2005, 6:40 PM

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May you have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year too. I am about to have Christmas Eve dinner with a German National (and bride) who went to school just South of you in Kelowna, leaving just before the forest fires hit in the summer of 2003.

Yes bring your XM Radio and if TV is important, bring your Star Choice, but make sure that if you do that you bring the larger satellite dish, the 75E not the 60E.

shoe

Dec 24, 2005, 7:30 PM

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Pete, you did real good until the last sentance. This person said they were the non technical type and I bet they do not know the difference a 75E is from a 60E, a 30-30, a IEEE 488 or a lot of other wonderful numbers you can throw out.

BTW, Merry chirstmas and Happy New Year.

cya,
shoe

johanson / Moderator

Dec 24, 2005, 8:21 PM

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Hey Shoe, Merry Christmas and all that jazz. Yea, I should have written that Star Choice offers two elliptical dishes, The larger of the two, labeled the 75E is what one needs down here. It measures 36 by 26 inches.

shoe

Dec 25, 2005, 6:01 AM

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Much better Pete, and have a happy Mew Year or at least as good as this one was. You made it through it and the alternative is not good.

cya,
shoe

Nothing is intrinsically good or evil, but its manner of usage may make it so.
-St. Thomas Aquinas

esperanza

Dec 26, 2005, 7:55 AM

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Pete, my attention got grabbed at the word 'bride'.

Yours?

Esperanza

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johanson / Moderator

Dec 26, 2005, 9:01 AM

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Are you kidding Experanza, I am already living in sin with Daisy, she's only eight, and has no fleas. Smile

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all

rickc

Dec 26, 2005, 10:07 AM

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Are you kidding Experanza, I am already living in sin with Daisy, she's only eight, and has no fleas. Smile

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all

Boy Pete, you do like em' young don't you. Smile

Kidding aside, when I saw your message above i also thought "Wow! Pete must have gotten himself married". At any rate, best holiday wishes for you and all the other neat folks on this webboard.

Rich Chambers
Navigating the Sea of Life..

esperanza

Dec 26, 2005, 10:46 AM

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Well shoot, here I thought there was big news. *sigh*

Happy New Year to you and Daisy, Pete.

Esperanza

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johanson / Moderator

Dec 26, 2005, 11:09 AM

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YOUNG?

I just got back from the Doctor's office. Daisy is getting so old that she can't hold it any more and had to get an estrogen shot.

Yep, even weimaraners (spelling?) get old.

hoyafb95

Jan 2, 2006, 10:38 AM

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Works in Mexico City with no problem.