Pioneer VSX-918V Using SIRIUS Radio, Connecting your SIRIUS Connect Tuner, Other connections

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programming. There are three places to find your eight character XM Radio ID: On the XM Mini-Tuner, on the XM Mini-Tuner package, and on XM Channel 0. Record the Radio ID in the following eight squares for reference.

Note: The XM Radio ID does not use the letters “I”, “O”, “S” or “F”. Activate your XM Satellite

forget a host of other great news and entertainment, like NPR, CNBC, Fox News, Radio Disney and E! Entertainment Radio. For more information, visit www.sirius.com.

Connecting your SIRIUS Connect Tuner

To receive SIRIUS Satellite Radio broadcasts, you will need to activate your SIRIUS Connect tuner.1

Radio service in the U.S. online at http://activate.xmradio.com or call 1-800-XM- RADIO (1-800-967-2346). Activate your XM Satellite Radio service in Canada online at https://activate.xmradio.ca or call 1-877-GET- XMSR (1-877-438-9677). You will need a major credit card. XM will send a signal from the satellites to activate the full channel lineup. Activation normally takes 10 to 15 minutes, but

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during peak busy periods you may need to keep your XM Ready home audio system on for up to an hour. When you can access the full lineup on your XM Ready home audio system you are done.

Using SIRIUS Radio

SIRIUS Satellite Radio provides over 120 channels of the best entertainment and completely commercial-free music for your car, home or office. Only SIRIUS has more than 65 original music channels, from today’s hits to R&B oldies to classical masterpieces. From authentic country and real bluegrass to cool jazz, hot latin, reggae, rock and many more. Best of all, it’s completely commercial-free.

SIRIUS also has more than 55 channels of world-class sports, news and entertainment. Included as part of your subscription, you get up to 16 NFL games a week, up to 40 NBA games a week and up to 40 NHL games a week. (Games are broadcast during their respective seasons.) Coupled with great sports news from ESPN, the SIRIUS sports offering is unrivaled. And don’t

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SiriusConnect™ HOME tuner AC adapter

1Connect a SIRIUS Connect tuner to the SIRIUS IN jack on the rear of this receiver. You will also need to connect the antenna and AC adapter to the Sirius Connect tuner.

2Press SIRIUS (SHIFT+AM) to switch to the SIRIUS input.

For best reception, you may need to move the SIRIUS Connect tuner antenna near a window (the southernmost window should produce the

best results).

1In order to activate your radio subscription, you will need the SIRIUS ID (SID) which uniquely identifies your tuner. The SID may be found on a sticker located on the packaging, or on the bottom of the tuner itself. The label will have a printed 12-digit SID number. When you have located the SID, write it down in the space provided near the end of this manual. Connect SIRIUS on the internet at: https://activate.siriusradio.com

Follow the prompts to activate your subscription, or you can also call SIRIUS toll-free at 1-888-539-SIRIUS (1-888-539-7474).

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