Avidyne’s EX500 can now receive weather data from both Orbcomm and XM Radio sources.

When we last examined weather datalink gadgets—all of two months ago, mind you—it appeared that the market was sorting itself out and that the dust had cleared sufficiently to make an intelligent buying decision. The EAA AirVenture show at Oshkosh blew that theory to bits.

The chart on these pages offers updated information on the article that appeared in the August, 2004 issue of Aviation Consumer.

Bottom line up top: there are more datalink products than ever, prices on the data itself are declining—or at least softening—and yet more products are still in the works, including an XM-Radio-based receiver that will display weather on the GNS430/540 series navigators. …