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In recent years, coordinated radio and X-ray observations of Galactic relativistic jet sources have led us to a fairly good phenomenological understanding of the jet and accretion properties over different accretion regimes. While there are well established classifications of these sources in terms of X-ray spectral and timing features, and appearance of the radio core, the difficulty comes about in assessing the interactions between the inflow and the outflow, and in understanding the physics of the transition between the different regimes. In light of these issues, we briefly review the radio properties of black hole and neutron star X-ray binaries with a focus on specific areas in which the Brazilian X-ray astronomy satellite MIRAX, combined with pointed radio observations, will enable us to gain insights into the time variable jet-accretion coupling and related phenomena. © 2006 American Institute of Physics [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]