"Jonathan Goodish" wrote in message
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In article ,
"Matt Barrow" wrote:
Can you get a Nexrad image directly from NOAA/NWS?
Snipola

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/radar_tab.php

As well as many other websites.


While airborne?


To get access to this data while airborne, I have to pay a private
company. I don't care about that, because I'm paying the company to
transmit the data to me, just like I pay my ISP to provide an Internet
connection when I pull the data off of the web. The bottom line is that
my tax dollars are being spent to generate the data, and therefore I
shouldn't have to pay a private company for access to the data if I
otherwise have a means of access.


The government prints currency, but the corporations & financial
institutions generate wealth.

(And the people continue to line up at the public trough.)