Pioneer Car Radio

The Pioneer car radio highlights the advances in car radio technology. The first car radio could pick-up only AM radio signals. Later car radios were designed to pick-up both AM and FM radio signals. Both of those signals passed over the ground. The occupants of a car could hear radio programs from only a limited distance. The Pioneer car radio picks-up satellite signals, i.e. signals that come from outer space.

When objects in outer space first began transmitting signals to earth no car radio had a tuner equipped to receive satellite signals. At that time the radio tuner received such signals with its FM tuner. Those signals remained distorted and unclear. In the Pioneer car radio the signals from the satellite pass through a satellite radio tuner. That adds clarity to the sounds carried by the satellite signal. The tuner converts those satellite signals into electrical signals and then those electrical signals produce the sound that comes from the radio.

Pioneer offers three types of tuners. Pioneer has a SIR-PNRI, a tuner equipped to receive signals from the SIRIUS radio channels. Yet not every Pioneer car radio has that same tuner. Some have a GEX-PQ20XM, a tuner that receives signals from the XM radio broadcasts. A few of the newer Pioneer car radios have GEX-P10XMT, a tuner that gets signals from 22 different markets. The newer Pioneer car radio allows the car occupants to hear traffic information along with the same news, sports, talk and music that has been offered to the XM subscriber.

Satellite radio programs, like cable TV programs are free of advertisements. Each channel offers programming that targets a specific audience. Satellite radio broadcasts allow Pioneer car radio to offer a greater number of channels than the conventional car radio. The owner of a Pioneer car radio also enjoys access to head units. Those head units show whatever channel is playing on the radio. When music channels are playing, then the head units show the artist, the album and the song name.