On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 02:45:55 GMT, "Roy N5804F"
wrote:


Sirius is making headway in merging with XM Radio.
No one seemed to be asking at the Anti Trust hearing whether or not Sirius
will continue to maintain the XM aviation weather services.
Or if they do, at what cost to the users ?
I would imagine that this will be another User Fee that is going to affect
our costs of flying safely.

"I think", which of course means I don't know for sure, but I think
the merger "IF it goes through with the FCC's blessing which I don't
think they have yet" would merely be a consolidation which would
eliminate duplicate services and possibly non profitable ones as well,
but that would happen whether they merge or not. So for the time being
I'd not be too concerned about XM weather.


Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com