Echanical designer david Richmond heads to his car during lunch, takes two coffee breaks a day behind I the wheel and sometimes just sits in his car even when the blustery winter temperatures in Greenbrier County, W.Va., fall below 20 degrees. All so he can listen to the radio. Greenbrier County has only two local stations, and the nearby mountains tend to interfere with reception. But over Christmas, Richmond's girlfriend, Mary, bought him a $100 tuner and a $10 service called XM Radio, allowing his Jeep Cherokee to draw 120 channels of crisp digital audio from two geostationary satellites hovering above the Earth. Richmond, 45, now spends his free time switching between the greatest hits of the '70s, urban top 40 and old-school blues. "I haven't listened to any other form 0f music since I got it," he says.
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