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Custom Vehicle Discussions => Screamin’ Eagle® Ultra Classic® Electra Glide® => Topic started by: Ride VA on October 20, 2006, 09:22:09 PM
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Hey Guys and Gals,
Got my '06 today and was going through the owners manual. Looking at the reference to XM on Page 69 it states, "refer to operations manual for XM Radio for tuning and other operations".
I've completed a search of old posts but could not find the answer to the specific questions.
The question is...does the HK radio already have the XM function installed on the SE?
Okay, another question...How can you tell if it does or not?
Alright, last question...If it does how do you get the radio ID to display?
I think it was the only thing I forgot to ask the dealer about and also did not get an "XM operations manual" in my documentation.
Thanks a bunch...CW
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Yes the SE Ultras come with the XM radio module installed.
You access it my scrolling thru the various inupts, AM, FM, CD, Weatherband, etc. There should be one for XM.
Tune XM to channel 1 and it will display your radio ID. This is what you will need to activate it. Tip - be sure you are outdoors when you call to activate it. I was in the garage and reception is impaired so it never got the activation signal. Works better if you can clearly "see" the big bird overhead. [smiley=xyxthumbs.gif]
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Thanks a bunch!...headed to the garage...Cheers!..CW
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Again, thanks for the help. Went to the garage (shed)...Seems I could already get all of the channels. Called XM and the previous owner of the bike had cancelled the service as of September 21.
Funny, I could still pick up all of the channels. The sweet young lady informed me that when a radio is activated it is direct to that radio and normally within 20 minutes but when it is cancelled it could take some time for the system to quit working. She said she has heard of it taking up to two months before it quit working via an old account. I had never heard that before :-?.
So I just moved my account from my other XM I had mouned on my '05 Ultra to the new one and I'm all set.
Cheers!...CW
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This is the first bike I have had XM on. I used to plug my IPOD into my "old" 05 ultra. I probably will never use my IPOD on my bike ever again. Being able to listen to all types of music no matter where you are is great. The sound system on the SEUC seems to be much better as well. Must be that amp. ;)
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Same here. Had the H-D MP3 player on the '05 and the HD XM Radio handlebar mount. I did switch those speakers to the Hogtunes and that made a difference in sound over stock. Now with the SE the sound to me is great and the XM and MP3 give me more room to hook up the coffee pot to the handlebars :).
Cheers!...CW
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Getting settled into the new bike I see, thats good....hope your enjoyin it, the heated grips and seat come in handy with the temps we've been havin. Been gone for a bit, had back surgery last Tuesday, still doing alot of PK's and could use alot more.......perhaps I'll get back on mine before the white stuff hits the ground.
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Getting settled into the new bike I see, thats good....hope your enjoyin it, the heated grips and seat come in handy with the temps we've been havin.
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Getting settled into the new bike I see, thats good....hope your enjoyin it, the heated grips and seat come in handy with the temps we've been havin.
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Hope you're back in the saddle soon FR8TRN! Back surgery ... tough stuff. B!tch to get old isn't it??
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Been there twice, but knock on wood...20 yrs since last cut. Best of luck to you and by spring I hope you're as good as new, if not sooner. About the topic - Sirius has better programming IMO, I'd rather burn CDs of stuff I like than use the XM. Maybe next season XM will have better programming. Of the (what, 175 channels?) I regularly only listened to about 6.
Thanks, but I better feel a whole lot better long before spring comes around, this pain $hit is gettin old quick.
I like Sirius better also, mostly for the Margaritaville Station, but other than that I find the 2 to be about the same. I'm not into the big draws like Stern and sports this or that, so it's just a music thing for me. We have Sirius cause it comes with our Dish Network, no extra charge, so I usually listen to it around the house, and have XM on the bike and in my Denali....so I'm taken care of on the road also.
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Been there twice, but knock on wood...20 yrs since last cut. Best of luck to you and by spring I hope you're as good as new, if not sooner. About the topic - Sirius has better programming IMO, I'd rather burn CDs of stuff I like than use the XM. Maybe next season XM will have better programming. [highlight]Of the (what, 175 channels?) I regularly only listened to about 6.[/highlight]
Hey Tony......... you need to expand your music versatility!! [smiley=banana.gif] [smiley=jalapeno.gif]
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Of the 175 channels, I only use one. ;D Bluesville # 74. I've tried a few other channels but nothing stuck. In the truck a while back my wife made me listen to country # 16, but they repeat songs too much. Just returned from a 3 day Texas hill country trip and was on Bluesville the whole time and never heard one song repeated.
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Of the 175 channels, I only use one.
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I far prefer Sirius as the other Parrotheads mentioned but I also am a football nut and love the NFL coverage there. And NASCAR next year as well. I had heard mention of an integrated module that was coming for Sirius. Anybody hear anything on that?
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One thing I have noticed with XM is commercials.... I thought thats why we pay for the service? Anyone have any input on this? I fiqure once they start it will only get worse.
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Getting settled into the new bike I see, thats good....hope your enjoyin it, the heated grips and seat come in handy with the temps we've been havin.
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Hey FR8TRN sorry to hear about you back. Hope you get much better real soon. PM me with your personal email address and I'll send you something that is guaranteed to brighten up your day. [smiley=xyxthumbs.gif]
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I far prefer Sirius as the other Parrotheads mentioned but I also am a football nut and love the NFL coverage there. And NASCAR next year as well.
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Truly enjoying the bike. Have added a couple of farkles but don't plan on adding anything else except and maybe a 6-speed later. The hydraulic clutch rally blows me away. Easy to pull the lever . It even seems lighter than the ultra by a ton...must have been all the other chrome on the '05 :).
Sorry to hear about the surgery and hope you are doing well. I had back surgery about 5 years ago to my lower back. Believe it when the doctor tells you what to do and don't over do it. I was at the point of going to work doped up...laying on the floor with the phone by me and only going out of the office when someone needed assistance. That was too funny...No pain since...God Bless!...
Cheers!...CW
Highly recommend the 6sp, I love havin mine. Got a few more things in for mine today, Rev brought em by since I'm still bed ridden for the most part. They look nice, can't wait to get em on the bike now.
Yeah this is my second time around on the back stuff, last one was 8 years ago, so I'm takin it as easy as I can. Hopefully this'll be the last one (yeah right).
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Hey FR8TRN sorry to hear about you back.
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One thing I have noticed with XM is commercials.... I thought thats why we pay for the service? Anyone have any input on this? I fiqure once they start it will only get worse.
Is it commercials or XM promoting itself. Some of the programming on XM are feeds from other sources which contain "spaces" for commercials...there's no way to have an uninterupted feed from those sources, as they are not fed that way. Sooooo, they have to fill the spaces with something. What are you listening to that has commercials? I only listen to a handful of stations on mine, all music, and the only commercials I ever hear last a very few seconds, and are promoting the station itself, or an upcoming special line of songs. [smiley=nixweiss.gif] If you're listening to live races or games, there's going to be spaces in the broadcast that must be filled with something. Even NPR has "commercials"...at least I haven't heard any obnoxious car commercials on XM...
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Is it commercials or XM promoting itself.
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Channel 11...Country...Lose Weight Bars or something like that and they seem to go on for minutes. I don't think it would bother me if they had a few other types of commercials but it always seems to be the same one on that channel...over and over again. The wife tells me that the owner of that channel/line-up must also be the owner of the weight loss commercials since she has noticed as well.
Yeah I quit listening to 11 because of em.....they do the "mystery shopper" commercial on there also....got tired of it and put 49 in it's place on my buttons....
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That's the whole reason I turned my XM OFF, the damn commercials! I'm certainly not paying $10/mo to listen to commercials. Especially when I can scan/seek and find a local for free. The only ride I've ever had that I wished for something more was way up the Alaska highway. There's not much up there, so buying a couple of tapes (was on my 01) was my option. Worked fine for that trip. And the repeated songs is a whole other problem. The programmers must be a real bunch to even have 1 repeat in 24 hrs, much less a couple of hours. There are numerous FM stations that have "no-repeat Thursday" or some such. They've got to do a WHOLE lot more before I feel like paying for it!
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TC,
Yes commercials on music stations. The mystery shopper is one that runs ALOT and there are a couple more. Does anyone know if Sirius is totally commercial free?
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This is the blurb directly from XM concerning commercials:
Does XM have commercials?
All of the 69 music channels programmed by XM are commercial-free. Many of our news, talk, sports and entertainment channels (including comedy and kids), as well as four music channels programmed by Clear Channel Communications carry a limited amount of commercials. Most local radio stations carry 18 minutes of commercials every hour.
Do any music channels on XM have commercials?
Because of their early investment in XM, radio broadcasting company Clear Channel Communications programs four music channels (Nashville - Channel 11, Kiss - Channel 21, Mix - Channel 22 and Sunny - Channel 24). Clear Channel has the right to include commercials on the programming they provide XM. As a result, these four music channels carry a limited amount of commercials.
Does XM have commercial-free alternatives to the four Clear Channel music channels?
If you like the music on these channels: Nashville (Channel 11), Kiss (Channel 21), Mix (Channel 22) and Sunny (Channel 24), but would prefer a commercial free environment, we suggest the channels: US Country (Channel 17) plays commercial-free country superstars from the 80s and 90s; XM 30 The Hitlist (Channel 30) plays contemporary pop hits from today and the past few years; Flight 26 (Channel 26) plays modern pop hits from the 90s through today and Escape (Channel 78) plays beautiful music and easy listening favorites from the past fifty years.
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So let's see, that's 4 commercial free channels and what, about 175 with commercials?!?!?!? :o
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Something else to note regarding XM radio that is a little known fact; if you have XM in another vehicle, such as your car, you get a discount for the second radio. Also, you can "negotiate" the price of the service. When I activated my XM in my truck, there was a discount coupon on the web, and I was able to get the service for $60 for the year. When I renewed it, it had gone to $12.95 per month, and I was able to negotiate it to $9.95 per month plus $6.95 per month for the second radio on my bike. Anyway, it's worth trying [smiley=banana.gif] Good luck and enjoy the new ride. [smiley=xyxthumbs.gif]
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So let's see, that's 4 commercial free channels and what, about 175 with commercials?!?!?!? :o
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Reading the "XM blurb", the ONLY thing they say is that there are 4 commercial free stations. They NEVER state that any other station is commercial free, only those 4. Every station I listened to during the 3 mos trial had commercials. I had it for the CC ride and surfed it the entire trip. I did not find any station that did not have SOME type of commercial. And yes, I even listened to their 4 "commercial-free" stations. They had commercials bragging about how good another XM station was and that I should try one of those ::).
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Reading the "XM blurb", the ONLY thing they say is that there are 4 commercial free stations. They NEVER state that any other station is commercial free, only those 4. Every station I listened to during the 3 mos trial had commercials. I had it for the CC ride and surfed it the entire trip. I did not find any station that did not have SOME type of commercial. And yes, I even listened to their 4 "commercial-free" stations. They had commercials bragging about how good another XM station was and that I should try one of those ::).
Well then I guess this blurb is wrong and misleading:
This is the blurb directly from XM concerning commercials:
Does XM have commercials?
[highlight]All of the 69 music channels programmed by XM are commercial-free[/highlight]. Many of our news, talk, sports and entertainment channels (including comedy and kids), as well as [highlight]four music channels programmed by Clear Channel Communications carry a limited amount of commercials. [/highlight]Most local radio stations carry 18 minutes of commercials every hour.
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I'd say it's certainly misleading. We've all listened to other stations than the special 4 that blurb refers to that are supposed to be the only stations with commercials, yet we've all heard commercials on essentially all the other stations. As far as my time listening is concerned, there were NO station without commercials. I told them so when I cancelled the service. Every single station I listened to had commercials. I guess I listened to about 40 different stations over the 3 mos I had it. You could argue that I only listened to 40 stations and all 130 or so others are completely commercial free, but the prime feature of XM was supposed to be the entire lack of commercials. When at least 1/3 of their stations have commercials, something's wrong. [smiley=nixweiss.gif] [smiley=confused5.gif]
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Well I tell ya what, when I bought my Denali I drove it around for about 3 days without the built-in XM activated...and it drove me nuts listening to the regular FM stations. It has a 6 disc player also, but ya get tired of the same CD's to. I've gotten so use to the virtually commercial free XM with various music choices that I just turned the radio off after a while. While XM may have short blurps about other XM channels, thats about all I hear (not including CH11 that they explain above, which I quit listening to, never listened to the others) listening to the commercials between each and every song played on FM stations was just too much.
I also like having the traffic information available for major cities. It's kept me out of Baltimore and DC traffic jams on several occasions.
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Well I tell ya what, when I bought my Denali I drove it around for about 3 days without the built-in XM activated...and it drove me nuts listening to the regular FM stations.
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I too would rather listen to XM than regular radio, mainly because I like all kinds of music and it offers that. I just think that it gets worse every year and soon we will be paying just to have a variety of channels that have just as many commercials as regular FM does now. The ole frog in the boiling water syndrome: throw a frog into a boiling pot of water and he jumps right out. But, place him in a pot of cool water and gradually turn up the heat until he sits right there and cooks to death!