Disappointment
When is the time you most want your satellite radio to work? On a long drive is one time that comes to mind. Yesterday, mine let me down. I hadn’t used it for three weeks. I’d taken it off the dash and tucked it into my console. Prior to driving back to Alabama from Texas at o’dark-thirty yesterday morning, I pulled it out and looked it up. Nothing. “ANTENNA” was all I could see displayed on my screen. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to determine the connection between my receiver and my antenna isn’t happening. The only logical conclusion I can make is I need a new car kit for my SkyFi2 receiver. Yes, the one they aren’t actively selling now. At least, not in WalMart, Best Buy, Circuit City, or Target (the places I checked as I drove cross country yesterday).
I found it on Amazon this morning for less than $10. (Look at the Digital Media Source price — I didn’t realize there were several versions available until I got home tonight.) It’s already shipped, and I should have it in day or two. I was tempted to order two so I’d have a spare. Knowing me, if I’d have done that, I wouldn’t have had it with me when I needed it.
I muddled through with over the air radio, CDs (yes, I finally verified my CD changer works), and I could have hooked up my iPod for awhile, but the audio level on it was so low, I had to max the volume to hear anything at all. I had hoped to listen in on one or two of the several NBA games played yesterday. No dice.
At least Natasha is happy to be back in Alabama. She doesn’t get along with our other two cats, so she made herself miserable for the last three weeks. That’s a problem I’m still puzzling out. She was supposed to stay with “daddy” in Texas, but we decided she just wasn’t assimilating well enough. She was ecstatic last night to be in her “other-cat-free” home.
There must be some plot with satellite radio. You’re not the first I’ve heard of that has had trouble with their satellite radio on a long trip. It’s almost like they’ve learned from computers how to go under at the most inopportune times!
Maybe Natasha just knew you were going to leave–cats have a way of knowing those kinds of things, the little twerps! 😉
To make matters worse, I plugged it into my boom box this morning and got the same error. So, it may not be the car kit. Did something fry the antenna lead on the actual receiver?
While that would be very disappointing, I haaaave been wanting one with a color screen….
As for Natasha, I suppose that’s possible. I’ve noticed that both female cats I’ve had have been very single-minded about who they care to associate with.
Reseated the receiver tonight, and it worked fine in the boombox. Whew!