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Kevin Heyboer wrote:
> 
> Warning...the following statement is politically motivated:
> 
> Well, I guess the folks in Georgia got took by somebody...wonder which
> special interest group got lobbied and who's wife works for DTN.....
> 
> EMWIN would cost 1/10 as much, could be retransmitted, and the data is
> free from the federal government...not to mention GOES 8 1.6 GHz does
> not suffer rain fade.....
> --

I've seen DTN's weather terminal, and I'm not overly impressed with it,
but I've also 
seen, and tried to use MRC's implementation of EMWIN. The user interface
for it is really too 
complicated for the average user in an emergency center, updates,
especially for graphics,
are few, and far between with no close up radar, and it's extremely
buggy. (scroll bars work 
backwards, cannot display the east coast in animation mode, etc) Most of
the products carried 
on DTN are available from the net, and at a much higher level of detail
ie; The closest you can 
get to a state with radar products is a 10 state representation of the
northeast, midwest, etc. 
Here's an example. http://www.dtn.com/weather/images/regrad.gif