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XM Weather in Canada
I just bought the Garmin 496 and I want to sign up for the aviation
weather service. Unfortunately I live in Canada. When I called to subscribe they said they couldn't sign me up and I should contact XM Canada. So I called them, and they do not offer this service at all, although they rep thought they would someday. I guess what I need to do is to provide a US address in order to subscribe to XM USA. I suppose I could make one up, or hire a PO Box somewhere in the US. If you subscribe to XM Weather, do they actually send stuff to your address? Is it important? If you are a Canadian subscriber to XM Weather, how did you do it? Does your Canadian credit card work, or do you need to use a card drawn on a US bank? randall g =%^) PPASEL+Night 1974 Cardinal RG http://www.telemark.net/randallg Lots of aerial photographs of British Columbia at: http://www.telemark.net/randallg/photos.htm Vancouver's famous Kat Kam: http://www.katkam.ca |
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randall g wrote:
I just bought the Garmin 496 and I want to sign up for the aviation weather service. Unfortunately I live in Canada. When I called to subscribe they said they couldn't sign me up and I should contact XM Canada. So I called them, and they do not offer this service at all, although they rep thought they would someday. I guess what I need to do is to provide a US address in order to subscribe to XM USA. I suppose I could make one up, or hire a PO Box somewhere in the US. If you subscribe to XM Weather, do they actually send stuff to your address? Is it important? If you are a Canadian subscriber to XM Weather, how did you do it? Does your Canadian credit card work, or do you need to use a card drawn on a US bank? randall g =%^) PPASEL+Night 1974 Cardinal RG http://www.telemark.net/randallg Lots of aerial photographs of British Columbia at: http://www.telemark.net/randallg/photos.htm Vancouver's famous Kat Kam: http://www.katkam.ca Not an XM Weather subscriber yet but as an XM radio customer and someone that plans to buy a 496 soon, I can't think of anything they would mail you. Got any friends on this side of the border? Use their address. |
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XM Weather in Canada
Ask COPA, in particular Kevin Psutka. He knows how to do it.
Gerd |
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XM Weather in Canada
XM weather already shows most of Canada's weather as it is broadcast now. It
has ALL the METARs and most of the country shows up on the NEXRAD radar. Karl "randall g" wrote in message ... I just bought the Garmin 496 and I want to sign up for the aviation weather service. Unfortunately I live in Canada. When I called to subscribe they said they couldn't sign me up and I should contact XM Canada. So I called them, and they do not offer this service at all, although they rep thought they would someday. I guess what I need to do is to provide a US address in order to subscribe to XM USA. I suppose I could make one up, or hire a PO Box somewhere in the US. If you subscribe to XM Weather, do they actually send stuff to your address? Is it important? If you are a Canadian subscriber to XM Weather, how did you do it? Does your Canadian credit card work, or do you need to use a card drawn on a US bank? randall g =%^) PPASEL+Night 1974 Cardinal RG http://www.telemark.net/randallg Lots of aerial photographs of British Columbia at: http://www.telemark.net/randallg/photos.htm Vancouver's famous Kat Kam: http://www.katkam.ca |
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On Aug 28, 11:30 am, "karl gruber" wrote:
XMweather already shows most of Canada's weather as it is broadcast now. It has ALL the METARs and most of the country shows up on the NEXRAD radar. Karl "randall g" wrote in message ... I just bought the Garmin 496 and I want to sign up for the aviation weather service. Unfortunately I live in Canada. When I called to subscribe they said they couldn't sign me up and I should contactXM Canada. So I called them, and they do not offer this service at all, although they rep thought they would someday. I guess what I need to do is to provide a US address in order to subscribe toXMUSA. I suppose I could make one up, or hire a PO Box somewhere in the US. If you subscribe toXMWeather, do they actually send stuff to your address? Is it important? If you are a Canadian subscriber toXMWeather, how did you do it? Does yourCanadian credit cardwork, or do you need to use a card drawn on a US bank? randall g =%^) PPASEL+Night 1974 Cardinal RG http://www.telemark.net/randallg Lots of aerial photographs of British Columbia at: http://www.telemark.net/randallg/photos.htm Vancouver's famous Kat Kam:http://www.katkam.ca- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - The Canadian subsidiary of XM is selling the music/audio element but still just making promises about XM weather "RSN" (real soon now.) The US website for XM weather now offers a range of packages for boating; the top one specifically includes "high resolution Canadian NEXRAD" -- so XM has access ot the Canadian radar data; they just haven't gotten organized to sell subscriptions to that data to Canadians. The US XM site has online subscription forms; these only accept US billing addresses and will not take a credit card number issued by a Canadian bank. |
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XM has been adding weather content every month..............
"Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote in message ... wrote: The Canadian subsidiary of XM is selling the music/audio element but still just making promises about XM weather "RSN" (real soon now.) The US website for XM weather now offers a range of packages for boating; the top one specifically includes "high resolution Canadian NEXRAD" -- so XM has access ot the Canadian radar data; they just haven't gotten organized to sell subscriptions to that data to Canadians. The US XM site has online subscription forms; these only accept US billing addresses and will not take a credit card number issued by a Canadian bank. Don't count on XM doing anything new until after the merger takes place. |
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And they have been adding new songs as they are released. What I meant by my
statement was no major changes in the way they do business. karl gruber wrote: XM has been adding weather content every month.............. "Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote in message ... wrote: The Canadian subsidiary of XM is selling the music/audio element but still just making promises about XM weather "RSN" (real soon now.) The US website for XM weather now offers a range of packages for boating; the top one specifically includes "high resolution Canadian NEXRAD" -- so XM has access ot the Canadian radar data; they just haven't gotten organized to sell subscriptions to that data to Canadians. The US XM site has online subscription forms; these only accept US billing addresses and will not take a credit card number issued by a Canadian bank. Don't count on XM doing anything new until after the merger takes place. |
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So a Canadian can now use a Canadian address to subscribe to XM Weather? karl gruber wrote: Whatever you meant, it isn't true. XM has added Canadian weather just in the past two months. They continue to improve coverage without an increase in price. KG "Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote in message ... And they have been adding new songs as they are released. What I meant by my statement was no major changes in the way they do business. karl gruber wrote: XM has been adding weather content every month.............. "Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote in message ... wrote: The Canadian subsidiary of XM is selling the music/audio element but still just making promises about XM weather "RSN" (real soon now.) The US website for XM weather now offers a range of packages for boating; the top one specifically includes "high resolution Canadian NEXRAD" -- so XM has access ot the Canadian radar data; they just haven't gotten organized to sell subscriptions to that data to Canadians. The US XM site has online subscription forms; these only accept US billing addresses and will not take a credit card number issued by a Canadian bank. Don't count on XM doing anything new until after the merger takes place. |
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