re-post from general blog

Looks like we could have old school weather faxes http://weather.noaa.gov/fax/marsh.shtml and Southbound Herb http://www3.sympatico.ca/hehilgen/vax498.htm free. it would be really nice to have XM or Sirius weather, but that would run from $800 for laptop software to ~$2000 for the capability in a new, integrated color chartplotter.