Good radio but XM and Sirius is a ripoff.
928818
Not a bad home unit but is supposed to be portable.  Antenna is very directional and keeps cutting in and out in the car or on the motorcycle.  Actually I think all all XM and Sirius is a ripoff.  They charge WAY too much for their service.  Used to be free to hear online if you had a radio subscription.  Now the cheap skates charge you for the same thing.
2168968
I purchased this radio to replace an older radio/boombox I had..This radio came solo without any accessories which was what I needed. I had to transfer the subscription from the old radio to this one because it was lifetime. The subscription transfer cost more than the New radio.. Go figure..
391050
I've been paying for Sirius for several years and we pretty much only use it in our kitchen which to me felt like a waste of money even though my wife and I love the stations and the sound quality. But when I recently discovered internet radio I decided I could snag this radio for less than a prepaid year of Sirius and it allows you to stream all your iTunes music. I was immediately sold and ordered this bad boy up. Loved the look ad size. The pictures don't do it justice. And it was relatively easy to set up. But finding stations can be difficult so thankfully they have the vtech site where you can navigate easily and find some good stations. However in order to access those stations on the radio you have to go through several menus to get them which can be annoying when you want to switch stations. (You can favorite them later, but it's a bit of a hassle, but after some time and effort you can get there.) My wife hated this and it's one of the reasons we ultimately returned it. The other was the sound. It looks like a mini boombox, but the sound is that of a clock radio and it was a real downgrade for us. Based on bit rate some stations came in better than others. Some sounded so bad we couldn't listen to them at all. But even the best sounding ones were inferior to our old radio.  Now I don't mind commercials (something Sirius is proudly without), but to be honest I couldn't find any GREAT stations. All were just so-so and I think it's partially to do with internet radio stations not having very deep pockets and are forced to play some lesser known tracks between the good ones.  Ironically the best stations I found were terrestrial normal FM radio stations and their broadcast quality was pretty poor. Internet radio sounds great on the internet, but not on this machine. I'm sure a more expensive machine will sound better. As for the iTunes streaming, it only worked with my Mac if I turned off the computer's firewall and this was not a concession I was willing to make. In the end I felt I got what I paid for so I sent it back and hooked the Sirius boombox back up.  Ultimately I think if you've never owned Sirius this might be really cool for you and if you have the time and patience you could find a decent playlist that sounds pretty good. Just wasn't for me.
2884056
The XM radio service is very good overall

And i think this device is on average good compared to other XM radio receivers.

On the plus side

a)the roady 2 is of Relatively small size

b)portable.

c)It has a large array of background colors.

On the other hand, I think Delphi can do better

1) the cables that connect to the roady are unsightly and  cumbersome.

2)you cant see the Artist name, song and the channel at the same time you must chose between views constantly if you want to see all three of the fields.

c)the plastic holders seem to be made of very cheap plastic.

I really don't know why Delphi deviated from a superior xm receiver design such as the Skyfi to the the Roady 2.

The price is not precisely cheaper since the roady 2 goes for 99.00 dollars.

I do not regret buying this unit i just think Delphi could have done better for the money, it certainly did so for the Skyfi.
1624690
Does not work with Sirius Stratus radio.  Description on web site is WRONG!  Sending it back
1320952
I had read this earlier on posts regarding XM's billing practices but thought it was just that person's problem or misunderstanding. Unfortunatley, I was wrong.

When you sign up for XM online you give over your credit card # which is then in their greedy little paws. After trying one of their radios for a few weeks I decided there were some good features but nothing worth keeping. I returned the radio to an area big box store w/o any issues.

I had only paid for a 30 day subscription with my credit card but they continued to bill me.

Links on the web site for unsubscribing lead to another page of links w/o telling you how to unsubscribe! When I called to find out why they were continuing to bill me one representative gave me a runaround saying that even though they could cease billing me they had to bill me as the radio had still been running (this is well over a month after returning it)!. Eventually they agreed to a partial refund even though I do not trust them to not bill again.

For those who might say this is not about the equipment listed on Amazon, I believe it's impossible with satellite radio to unlink the radio programming or the billing issues from the equipment. This is not Amazon's fault, but I think consumers need to be warned.

If you must try XM, I would highly recommend using a credit card that you add money to for any individual purchases not your usual purchases. I do not, however, think they're a very honest company.
4445646
Good radio except for a couple of issues. #1 the radio sometimes becomes distorted on the receive.#2 the radio dose not do crossband repeat or at least i could not get the radio to do it. Nor dose the instruction manuel tell you how to enable crossband repeat.#3 this radio dose not have a light whitch i relly like about the bofang uv82 .it would be nice if this radio had a dual ptt. Like the bofang uv82. Plus it would also be nice if you could charge this radio through a car cigerate lighter just like the uv5r exdended battery. So this radio dose leave a lot to be desired.
821462
I really only bought this radio so I could tune in the the weekend broadcasts of 'Click & Clack".  Poor reason, I know, but.....

As  number of reviewers have noted, this Sangean PR-D5 receives AM signals well, but not so good on FM.  I can press the Stations Presets for NPR, and sometimes the signal is clear, other times there's a lot of background hiss, and fade.  Adjusting the antenna helps somewhat, but I didn't buy a radio, to be fiddling with it all the time.
4080277
I bought my first satellite radio in my life in August of 2007 ( Sportster 4 w/ Car Kit) and my antenna went bad after a month (Message said: "Antenna not detected") Sirius was great about quickly sending me a replacement, though I had to pay another $30 in labor to have it professionally installed (again). Just over a month later, I am now getting bad reception with the occasional message: "Acquiring Signal" and no audio. So I called Sirius to get ANOTHER antenna and they wanted to send an entire replacement Sportster 4 w/ Car Kit, have me play around and find the bad parts and THEN ship the unused parts back AT MY COST!!! I could not get them to pick up the tab on an approximate $6 shipping charge. I don't mind paying this if this was the only time, but this is the 2ND TIME IN 3 MONTHS OF OWNERSHIP THAT THIS PRODUCT HAS GONE BAD!!!  Consequently, we had bought a 2nd Sportster 4 that stopped working in a week (the unit itself went bad) but they quickly sent a replacement to us. Seems like there's some quality control issues at SIRIUS.

***Addendum 4/2008: Had another antenna fail on me and had to replace it. Sirius customer service was quick to send a free replacement, and an install card to cover my costs for installing the new one. But I'm getting SICK AND TIRED of having to keep replacing these damn things!!!
3738406
I wish I could give more stars on this.  I am sure the radio is great.  I am giving this 3 stars because it is not TRULY a 3 channel radio.  This is a 2 channel radio with a on and off switch (what they are calling the 3rd channel) I needed a 3 channel radio to control a 4 wheel steering set up on my rock crawler and this was not the answer.  I am returning this and going with a simple Y harness instead.  I am so very disappointed.  I feel as though this is very misleading to the buyer who is looking for a true 3 channel radio.
I am sure there are many people who would LOVE this on/off feature for other things, like turning on and off LED lights, or for winches perhaps.
but I feel as though if this were in the description, the seller would be more honest and would probably have fewer returns.
I will say, this radio is very functional and you can fine tune BOTH channels how you like and set it up to run more then 1 vehicle etc.  The instructions are very very very vague.  You can get much information from youtube.  I very much liked all the options this could have gave me if the 3rd channel was fully functional.
2495118
The cable between the interface and the Sirius receiver does NOT have anything retaining it, and I did use the elecricians tape wrap as a fix for that problem.  However the main beef I have is that while I have good radio, there is no good communication with the unit to the cars display.  I have an Avalon, and while this may work well on other Toyota's (only a guess by me, of course), it won't even give me the channel number to which I am tuned.  No information..  Nada.  Some great interface, huh?
1861478
Good radio for the price with all the features, but I've lost half my stations because the reception range sucks
4927095
I thought I was getting a radio that was XMSirius equipped and I would only have to buy the subscription. No, I must purchase a 140.00 tuner plus pay installation fees. Add that to the 387.00 to install it originally , buying the harness, adapters for the steering wheel controls this spectacular bargain has cost me 565.oo and I still don't have XM radio which was the only reason I bought it. I should have stayed with the factory installed radio which was great . I would not purchase again, nor would I recommend.
4646528
This is a lot of radio for the money. I am very pleased with the performance and the overall package. Only thing missing is a Sirius input.
One thing I would change is that the installation diagram should also be printed in the manual. It is printed on a sticker which is attached to the top of the radio which is good for reference after you have lost the manual, but not good for initial installation.
2218890
I have never owned a radio with worse reception. I am located in Boulder on University Hill, and I can not bring in ONE SINGLE station clearly. Not even close. Not even a clear but mono station even. I called Tivoli, and would be charged $70 to fix it. No warrantee because Sears was not authorized to sell them anymore. Unbelievable. Don't touch the thing...
2776597
I've actually owned several different portable satellite radios. In each case, I had the same complaint. The product worked well but there was always something that came up where I needed customer service. The service was terrible. After maybe 5 years of being a customer, I gave up and bought an Ipod. Now, where that rare problem comes up, I walk into my local Apple store and have the problem quickly fixed by someone who actually knows something about the product. Occasionally, I'm tempted to go back to satellite radio because there are some things I miss. Then I remember that at some point I will have to deal with customer service and I quickly go back to enjoying my Ipod. If XM/Sirius Customer Service was anywhere near the quality of the products that deliver their programming, I'd still be a listener.
2876177
Got this to replace another Sirius receiver that died.  This is a nice unit and does everything I wanted it to do EXCEPT reliable FM transmitter performance.  Meaning this thing sucks if you plan on listening to it over an unused fm radio station frequency on your radio.  I tried every unused freq I could find and even installed the "helper" antenna they included.  Static, static, and more you guessed it static.  Actually I believe I read somewhere that the FCC made the manufacturers reduce the transmission power of all these types of units after complaints of cross signals...if that is true then it's going to be the same for all these units.  That being said I order the Sirius Professional Vehicle Install Kit SIR-PVK1.  It completely solved this problem and got rid of the need to use the cig lighter plug which is nice.  Bottom line...this is a great unit if you order the pro install kit.  Would be nice if they just included it but they don't.