Sirius has applied for 15 new Repeater Towers in various locations across Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and California among others.
Each repeaters has an average power of 2,000 Watts, which XM and Sirius pretty much have a blanket authority to operate at. The WCS Coalition (which mostly consists of AT&T, the largest WCS license holder) generally has a bee in their bonnet over satellite radio repeater towers, and raises a stink over any repeaters operating over 2,000 Watts.
Click the jump to see the exact locations of each of the proposed repeaters...
[FCC Application (PDF) via Satellite Radio TechWorld]
Proposed Sirius repeater locations:
3420 Ellicott Center Drive,
Ellicott City, MD 21043
1603 Orrington Ave.
Evanston, IL
1710 Cleneay Avenue,
Cincinnati, OH 45212
1115 Old Dixie Hwy, West
Palm Beach, FL 33403
60-52 Madison Street,
Queens, NY 11385
24 River Rd., Bogota,
NJ 07603
201 Willowbrook Blvd,
Wayne, NJ 07470
5627 Germantown Avenue,
Philadelphia, PA 19144
811 East Cayuga Street,
Philadelphia, PA 19124
3331 Bristol Pike,
Bensalem, PA 19020
5831 Rosebud,
Sacramento, CA 95841
8780 Jackson Road,
Sacramento, CA 95826
3425 51st Avenue,
Sacramento, CA 95823
5321 1st Street NE,
Washington, DC 20011
9701 Fields Road,
Gaithersburg, MD 20878
Do these things give you cancer? I might build one in m backyard?
Ryan have you heard anything about the Brooklyn repeaters Sirius applied for in September? I have been waiting anxiously for those to be approved by the FCC.
AT&T probably has a problem because of their low quality wireless network. Fewest dropped calls. Sure you can't drop a call if you can't make one.
Sweet, repeaters is going to be close to me.
ROCK ON! one of those locations is 4.8 miles from my house. :)
What kind of range does one of these things have?
What kind of range does one of things have?
Damnit... near the intersection of I-270 and I-370? Unless it's 22,000kw (like Harrisburg) aiming East, it's just going to be a disappointment for us in the Washington suburbs.
>>> Damnit... near the intersection of I-270 and I-370? Unless it's 22,000kw (like Harrisburg) aiming East, it's just going to be a disappointment for us in the Washington suburbs.
Realwx
Why are you complaining? Just last week you said:
"Believe me, it was a good choice for Sirius to have a constantly moving satellite. There are problems with XM's satellites and their decision to go geostationary. For example, can you be at one side of a mountain and get XM signal, then go to the other side of the mountain and still get XM's signal? I didn't think so."
So, how is it a good decision you can't get signal in the damned Washington suburbs? Does XM have reception issues in the Washington suburbs?
Funny.
Posted by Billy Houston at 2007ǯ10 29 01: