SIRIUS ST4-TK1 Starmate 4 Plug-and-Play Satellite Radio Receiver with Car Kit
Sirius Starmate 4 Replay with car kit is the latest in the popular line of Starmate receivers. It has a large wide-screed LCD display, and the unit itself is slim, making it easily portable. Displayed on the screen will be the artist name, song titles, and up to 5 lines of text. The Starmate 4 replays up to 44 minutes of content and can pause, rewind, and fast forward.
SIRIUS ST4-TK1 Starmate 4 Plug-and-Play Satellite Radio Receiver with Car Kit Accessories
 Sirius Universal Dock and Play Home Kit SUPH1
Sirius SUB-X1 Universal Plug 'n' Play Boombox
Sirius Wired FM Relay Retail Package
Sirius Soloist Universal Sound System
Sirius Professional Vehicle Install Kit SIR-PVK1
Sirius Universal Dock and Play Vehicle Kit SUPV1
Sirius ST-B2 Starmate Replay Boombox
Directed Electronics 14105 Car Antenna
Directed Electronics 14230 Antenna Extension Cable - 50 FT
Sirius SIR-PMK1 Professional Motorcycle Install Kit
SIRIUS ST4-TK1 Starmate 4 Plug-and-Play Satellite Radio Receiver with Car Kit Reviews
The product arrived on time and brand new. The price was very good and it has operated very well as expected. I chose this specific model to match the docking in a few other cars so I was limited in what I wanted but I am very happy with it and it's performance.
I also liked the inclusion of the vent holders, although they could have made them a little sturdier. I'll never go back to listening to terrestrial radio again, that's for sure. At any rate, I'm happy with the product overall. After having my Sirius Starmate 2 for 2 years, I made the purchase of the Starmate 4 after I had the Starmate 2 stolen out of my car. But since I usually use the remote, it's not that big of an issue as I'm not physically handling the receiver and can knock it around. The biggest improvement of the S4 was the docking station, which makes taking the receiver with you a snap, which was a drastic improvement over the Starmate 2, where you had to unplug/plug in the power and antenna cords, as well as fumble with locking/unlocking the receiver into place on its mounting bracket. As with the Starmate 2, the jump button on the remote/receiver seems to serve little to no effect, and would seem to have made more sense to turn that into a recall/last channel option. I have noticed that it takes longer for the receiver to establish a signal, although I don't know if the fact that I have it plugged into my aux port to create a better connection as opposed to the wireless option, which lets you get your signal over a radio frequency, as I had with the Starmate 2.
It works well and I am very satisfied with it. Nice radio for a decent price.
The radio service is great if it works, but if it doesn't, may the gods help you because Sirius won't. We had major problems with our after-market radio. It was as if they didn't care about our business in any shape or form. Neither helped.
They wanted to send another of the same model but we had already been through all that. She spent 2 hours being bounced around and hung up on. Then they would say things like "I don't see any orders on your account so I can't help you." What does that even mean. Customer service/retention/tech support would not do anything for us.
In the end it was easier to cancel the service and eat all the money we'd put into it so far than to deal with them. My wife then called customer service and that was a huge mistake. The installers tried a new radio that Sirius sent and a new antenna that they sent.
Wanted to get the FM direct connect anyway so it was no big deal. The FM transmitter is nonexistent so they should not advertise it at all. Hooked up the FM direct connect and now no static and works great. As far as the rest of the radio i think it was well worth the money.
This is a nice radio that works great. I would buy this again for this price. Mounted 12 inches away from the FM antenna in my truck it was nothing but static where the starmate3 transmitted just fine. It was stolen and could not find another one so i replaced it with this one. I had the starmate3 just 3 months ago and the FM transmitter worked fine (it was built and bought after they reduced the signal strength).
I use it in a boom box also and it works flawlessly as well.
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