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XM Weather in Canada
How would I know? Do your own research!
KG "Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote in message ... So a Canadian can now use a Canadian address to subscribe to XM Weather? |
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My understanding was you put it on your cc and use a US address. I think
it is some licensing thing they can't yet sell the product in Canada. John 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 |
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karl gruber wrote:
How would I know? Do your own research! KG "Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote in message ... So a Canadian can now use a Canadian address to subscribe to XM Weather? I did and you seemed to question the position I had taken so that sort of leaves the ball in your court. |
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"Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote in message
... So a Canadian can now use a Canadian address to subscribe to XM Weather? I did and you seemed to question the position I had taken so that sort of leaves the ball in your court. Clearly you didn't research anything since your position is: "Don't count on XM doing anything new until after the merger takes place." Meanwhile they are implementing new weather features on a continuing basis. I see it's difficult for you to argue against fact, but trying makes you look foolish. KG |
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On Sep 27, 11:06 pm, wrote:
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.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - How does the vendor know which bank a credit card is drawn from, and why does he even care? However, vendors use zip codes to match the credit card to the mailing address, so using a friend's address in the U.S. is not going to work unless that friend is also willing to lend you his credit card. |
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Andrew Sarangan wrote in
ups.com: On Sep 27, 11:06 pm, wrote: 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.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - How does the vendor know which bank a credit card is drawn from, and why does he even care? In my case it's by the first four numbers on my card.. I've only had a problem with one vendor ever over it. Bertie |
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On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:14:15 -0700, Andrew Sarangan
wrote: How does the vendor know which bank a credit card is drawn from, and why does he even care? However, vendors use zip codes to match the credit card to the mailing address, so using a friend's address in the U.S. is not going to work unless that friend is also willing to lend you his credit card. I note that my old thread has come to life again. Here is what I have discovered, as I posted to aviation.ca: XM Weather in Canada - How To Get It Easily Just in case you didn't want to read the whole thread about my trial-and-error experience, here is how any pilot in Canada can easily subscribe to XM Satellite Aviation Weather. 1. Purchase your XM receiver - I bought a Garmin 496 from vippilot.com online. You can buy it in Canada. The radio or antenna will have an XM radio ID printed on it which you will need when you subscribe. It is probable that the store you buy it from will not know how you can subscribe to weather in Canada. Just smile smugly to yourself. 2. DO NOT CALL XM CANADA. They do not offer weather, although they claim they will some day. These instructions are for if you want it now. 3. Call XM USA and subscribe to their aviation weather. They have two plans - if you want Canadian weather information you need the more expensive one, for US$50 per month. They will want a US address - give them any address in the US or just make one up - you will never need to receive anything there. If you are desperate try something like "One Speigel Drive, Chicago, 60609". 4. When they ask for your credit card, say you don't want to use a credit card, and ask for billing by invoice. If you give them a Canadian credit card at this point, they will immediately detect that it is not from a US bank and will be unable to use it, probably due to arcane FCC and CRTC rules about exactly who is allowed to pay attention to particular photons of radiation bathing on them from the sky. Instead they will set you up to receive a monthly invoice by mail, which you can pay the old fashioned way. DO NOT WORRY, you don't need to receive this invoice. 5. Confirm that your radio is activated. I had to bring mine out on the porch, and after being on for 20 minutes or so, it picked up my subscription and started loading the weather data. Woohoo! 6. OK now you are thinking, I don't want to futz around with paying monthly bills by cheque, this isn't the 20th century! Well here comes the tricky bit. Go to www.xmradio.com and create an online login for your subscription. You enter your radio id and email, and now you can view your account and billing information. Among other things you can view all your invoices, so if you did want to pay by cheque, you could just do it at this point without receiving anything by mail (see?) The online site also offers an option to pay your invoice online. Click this and you go to some US bank site, where you can enter a credit card number. AT THIS POINT THEY DO NOT CARE WHERE THE MONEY IS COMING FROM! Ain't capitalism grand? Or rather, ain't Accounts Receivable grand? I used my plain vanilla Canadian Royal Bank Visa, which of course didn't even match the bogus address I had provided. It still worked! They don't care, they just want the money! Not willing to believe this at first, I waited a couple of days to make sure the charge went through, which was eventually confirmed. Interestingly, this process has apparently set my account to bill my credit card directly, rather than by invoice. I'll confirm this in the coming months but for now, everything is copascetic. 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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Thank you!
John randall g wrote: On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:14:15 -0700, Andrew Sarangan wrote: How does the vendor know which bank a credit card is drawn from, and why does he even care? However, vendors use zip codes to match the credit card to the mailing address, so using a friend's address in the U.S. is not going to work unless that friend is also willing to lend you his credit card. I note that my old thread has come to life again. Here is what I have discovered, as I posted to aviation.ca: XM Weather in Canada - How To Get It Easily Just in case you didn't want to read the whole thread about my trial-and-error experience, here is how any pilot in Canada can easily subscribe to XM Satellite Aviation Weather. 1. Purchase your XM receiver - I bought a Garmin 496 from vippilot.com online. You can buy it in Canada. The radio or antenna will have an XM radio ID printed on it which you will need when you subscribe. It is probable that the store you buy it from will not know how you can subscribe to weather in Canada. Just smile smugly to yourself. 2. DO NOT CALL XM CANADA. They do not offer weather, although they claim they will some day. These instructions are for if you want it now. 3. Call XM USA and subscribe to their aviation weather. They have two plans - if you want Canadian weather information you need the more expensive one, for US$50 per month. They will want a US address - give them any address in the US or just make one up - you will never need to receive anything there. If you are desperate try something like "One Speigel Drive, Chicago, 60609". 4. When they ask for your credit card, say you don't want to use a credit card, and ask for billing by invoice. If you give them a Canadian credit card at this point, they will immediately detect that it is not from a US bank and will be unable to use it, probably due to arcane FCC and CRTC rules about exactly who is allowed to pay attention to particular photons of radiation bathing on them from the sky. Instead they will set you up to receive a monthly invoice by mail, which you can pay the old fashioned way. DO NOT WORRY, you don't need to receive this invoice. 5. Confirm that your radio is activated. I had to bring mine out on the porch, and after being on for 20 minutes or so, it picked up my subscription and started loading the weather data. Woohoo! 6. OK now you are thinking, I don't want to futz around with paying monthly bills by cheque, this isn't the 20th century! Well here comes the tricky bit. Go to www.xmradio.com and create an online login for your subscription. You enter your radio id and email, and now you can view your account and billing information. Among other things you can view all your invoices, so if you did want to pay by cheque, you could just do it at this point without receiving anything by mail (see?) The online site also offers an option to pay your invoice online. Click this and you go to some US bank site, where you can enter a credit card number. AT THIS POINT THEY DO NOT CARE WHERE THE MONEY IS COMING FROM! Ain't capitalism grand? Or rather, ain't Accounts Receivable grand? I used my plain vanilla Canadian Royal Bank Visa, which of course didn't even match the bogus address I had provided. It still worked! They don't care, they just want the money! Not willing to believe this at first, I waited a couple of days to make sure the charge went through, which was eventually confirmed. Interestingly, this process has apparently set my account to bill my credit card directly, rather than by invoice. I'll confirm this in the coming months but for now, everything is copascetic. 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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I didn't know you were in Canada. From your email addy, I thought the US?
Where at? I am in Southern Ontario. John Gig 601XL Builder wrote: karl gruber wrote: How would I know? Do your own research! KG "Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote in message ... So a Canadian can now use a Canadian address to subscribe to XM Weather? I did and you seemed to question the position I had taken so that sort of leaves the ball in your court. |
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The Visitor wrote:
I didn't know you were in Canada. From your email addy, I thought the US? Where at? I am in Southern Ontario. John I'm not but I can see how you thought that from the mangled threading. Mr. Karl "Helpful" Gruber was top posting and so I top posted my replies for a while then I slipped and did it correctly. |
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