Everybody Needs a Roady!
by Gary Woods

When I played music a roady was definitely a cool thing to have. They carted all the band's stuff and made the gig a whole lot more enjoyable. Now the word Roady has taken on a whole new meaning as in the Delphi XM Roady2 Satellite Radio http://www.shopdelphi.com. Delphi offers a complete 100-channel XM satellite receiver and stock ticker for your car packed into a case roughly the size of an iPod music player.

Until now to make satellite radio work in your car, you had to buy a new car radio or an add-on kit that came with a bunch of wires and took up a lot of room on the dash. With the Roady2, you can attach a power cord to the cigarette lighter and run the antenna cable to the roof and that's it. Once you make a call to XM to activate the service ($9.95 a month) you're up and running. You don't even need to connect an audio cable out to your car radio or cassette player because an FM modulator is integrated. You simply find an unused FM frequency to broadcast the signal through your car speakers. For the best quality you'll want to connect to the line-in on your car radio, if it has one.

In addition to audio, you can get as many as 20 stock quotes beamed to the display in nearly real time. Roady2 is definitely cool, check it out.

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