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

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.

Ask COPA, in particular Kevin Psutka. He knows how to do it.
Gerd

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
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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

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

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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 -

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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.

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.

XM has been adding weather content every month..............




"Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote in message
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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.

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.

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 -

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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.

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