Satellite Radio For 2005 Rx 330

[joepattie]

how do I know if my 2005 rx330 will accept satellite radio i.e. sirius xm?

[1990LS400]

What do you mean by "accept satellite radio"? Do you want to confirm if your RX has the dearler installed sat radio option or a tuner than a previous owner might have installed? Do you have a Sat button on the radio? if so, when you press it and tune to channel zero, do you see the radio ID that you would need to get sat radio service?

If you don't have a sat radio tuner, you could buy one on ebay or from a company like http://www.vaistech.com

Personally, I don't think sat radio has much of a future except maybe in areas with poor cell phone service. Get hold of the April 2013 Consumer Report magazine and read what it has to say. Sat radio was a great idea in the 1990's but it has been superceded in many ways by Internet radio and music services: Tunein, Pandora, Slacker, etc. We dropped XM from our Prius several months ago - never listened to it. Unless there is sat radio content you really want, you might be better off adding an aux-in to your RX radio if it doesn't already have one and streaming Internet radio and other audio services from your phone .... assuming you have good cell phone service and a decent (at least 2GB/month) data plan.