brain whatcott
2011-06-18 21:46:29 UTC
brian whatcott <***@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Ron Lee from Meadow Lake Airport wrote in Pike's Peak Flyer:
January 2009
The SuperUnicom was shut down in early August 2008 due to
harmful interference on the 122.7 MHz fre-quency A grant was
submitted and approved to get an AWOS III P/T using FAA funds.
Our portion of the cost is around $4,000 although incidentals
may drive it higher... but far below the $25,000 previously
budgeted for an AWOS. One MLAA Board member is attempting to
force a system that is not fully certified down our throats
using the flawed rationale that it is cheaper that the fully
certified systems offered by All Weather Inc and Vaisala. A
major down side to the Belfort system is that pilots will not
be able to access METAR data through FlightService, ADDS, on
their on-board weather systems, etc. We will very likely be
unable to acquire a three letter airport ID and maintenance
will cost much more over its lifetime than with either of the
fully certified systems. Plus in its current implementation,
there is no obvious upgrade path to getting present weather
and lightning information available in an AWOS III P/T system.
It is crucial to the safety of this airport and our usefulness
as a destination airport within the National Airspace System
that we get a state of the art AWOS. With the FAA grant, it is
amazingly affordable. But it is essential that local pilots
become informed on this matter and contact all Board members
to express their view. My opinion... based upon extensive
research on behalf of MLAA members... is that we need a fully
certified AWOS. The minimum configuration is AWOS III, with
AWOS III P/T highly desirable (objective). It needs to be the
number one priority acquisition with a target installation not
later than Spring 2009. It must not be sacrificed to pay
interest on the land acquisition.
His full report is located he
http://home.pcisys.net/~ronlee/MeadowLakeAWOSSelectionAnalysis.doc
If you're considering Digiwx AWOS... READ THIS ANALYSIS FIRST!
Following up on the post regarding the UN-APPROVED, UN-
CERTIFIED and UN-OFFICIAL weather data sprewed by Belfort
Digiwx AWOS, one also needs to note that they only sold 2
units during all of 2009.
Buy anything except Belfort Instrument Digiwx AWOS from Bruce R.
Robinson and company.
These Belfort Digiwx AWOS Chinese made wind sensors are about
the worst products available in the weather instrumentation
marketplace worldwide. This is yet another reason why Belfort
Instruments did not get the following Digiwx AWOS weather
sensors (ie. wind speed, wind direction, temperature, dewpoint,
relative humidity, density altitude, present weather,
precipitation, lightning, ceilometer (aka condensation
altitude)) FAA Approved, nor FAA Ceritified and why the
information SPEWED from a Belfort Digiwx AWOS is NOT OFFICIAL
FAA WEATHER INFORMATION (like you'd find in a FAA METAR
report). Belfort formats their UN-APPROVED, UN-CERTIFIED and
UN-OFFICIAL weather data to make it look like an official
avaition METAR when it's NOT! And that's why you won't find
a single FAA COMMISSIONED Belfort Digiwx AWOS anywhere in
the world!
Bruce R. Robinson's 10 reasons to NOT buy Belfort Digiwx AWOS
Ten reasons for not buying Belfort Instrument Digiwx AWOS:
1) no FAA Approved or FAA Certifed wind speed
2) no FAA Approved or FAA Certifed wind direction
3) no FAA Approved or FAA Certifed temperature
4) no FAA Approved or FAA Certifed dewpoint
5) no FAA Approved or FAA Certifed density altitude
6) no FAA Approved or FAA Certifed visibility
7) no FAA Approved or FAA Certifed precipitation measurement
8) no FAA Approved or FAA Certifed precipitation discriminator
9) no FAA Approved or FAA Certifed ceiling measurement (ceilometer)
10) no FAA Approved or FAA Certifed lightning detection
Then you can always check out the reliability of a Digiwx:
Check it out yourself:
http://www.digiwx-n27.com - CURRENT DATA NOT AVAILABLE
http://www.digiwx-2m8.com - CURRENT DATA NOT AVAILABLE
http://www.digiwx-ambergriscayairport.com - CURRENT DATA NOT AVAILABLE
It's been this way for months!
Not hours, not days, not weeks, but months!
How many more examples of unreliable Digiwx stations do you need?
The United States had 546 commercial service airports as of 2001. See:
http://www.bts.gov/publications/national_transportation_statistics/20..
You won't find a single Digiwx AWOS in use at any of these
commercial service airports where passengers are being
transported. When you consider that Digiwx AWOS is nothing
more than a FAA Approved barometer and visibility sensor,
now you know why!
Why would you put your family at risk to a small airport that
has a Digiwx AWOS in use? Do you have a death wish for your
family?
Here are some other relaible AWOS alternatives that you will
find in use at U.S. commercial service airports including:
http://www.vaisala.com
http://www.allweatherinc.com
http://www.superunicom.com
Belfort Instrument Digiwx AWOS LOWLIFES
BELFORT & GAMMA SCIENTIFIC CO-OWNER
Bruce R. Robinson (serves as Chief PHUCK at Utilipoint Intl)
Ellen H. Robinson (phuck buddy)
60 Paako Drive
Sandia Park, NM 87047
brobinson (at) utilipoint.com
http://www.utilipoint.com/team/robinson.asp
BELFORT & GAMMA SCIENTIFIC CO-OWNER
Nicholas C. Kaufman
Darlene C. Kaufman (phuck buddy)
13667 Marsh Harbor Drive North
Jacksonville, FL 32225
cs (at) quickstrategy.com
http://www.quickstrategy.com/advisors.jsp
CHIEF OPERATING BITCH
Debra S. Alascio (maiden name: Spence)
Santo V. Alascio (drunk husband)
960 Fell Street, Unit 313
Baltimore, MD 21231
DSAlascio (at) belfortinstrument.com
FORMER BELFORT CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER (who was fired)
William C. Gordon (backstabbing dick sucker)
Judith A. Gordon (phuck buddy)
13911 Manor Road
Baldwin, MD 21013
BELFORT DIRECTOR OF SALES
Ralph F. Petragnani
Elisa Petragnani (phuck buddy)
1039 Old Bay Ridge Road
Annapolis, MD 21403-4256
rpetragnani (at) belfortinstrument.com
BELFORT INSTRUMENT DIGIWX AWOS SUPPORT
M. Tylor Burton III
Jane M. Burton (phuck buddy)
25 Dunvegan Road
Catonsville, MD 21228
tylorb (at) gmail.com
BELFORT INSTRUMENT MARKETING MANAGER
Steven K. Eagan
Joy M. Eagan (phuck buddy)
18912 Falls Road
Hampstead, MD 21074
Digiwx AWOS was voted the MOST UNRELIABLE AWOS weather
system in the U.S. marketplace according to a recent poll
of pilots from AOPA.
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.airports/msg/2de1905c0cdcc7a3
Pilots reported that:
1) Digiwx unable to consistently transmit weather data
2) rampant Digiwx outages (that pretty scary)
3) incorrect wind direction and wind speed readings
4) incorrect temperature and dewpoint readings
5) Digiwx AWOS systems that aren't even FAA commissioned
6) non-existant tech support from Belfort Instruments
7) Digiwx that doesn't broadcast over Unicom using mic clicks
8) Digiwx that doesn't broadcast over Unicom using voice reco
9) several airports that have replaced Digiwx with SuperAWOS
10) Belfort Instruments lies about it's involvement with Wright
Brothers
And one commercial pilot offered up these indisputable facts:
Belfort Instruments ancient ceilometer is being retired.
http://www.arm.gov/instruments/instrument.php?id=blc
Belfort Instruments unreliable ASOS wind anemometer is being
replaced.
http://ams.confex.com/ams/pdfpapers/69268.pdf
Belfort Instruments faulty Universal 5-780 rain gage is being
retired.
http://pubs.usgs.gov/wri/wrir034167/toc.html
Belfort Instruments problem-prone Bendix Aerovane is being
replaced.
http://ice.ssec.wisc.edu/databook/dtbk95.doc
Belfort Instrument Type F Naval wind system being phased out.
http://washington.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2002/04/01/story..
ml
Belfort Instruments Model 6000 visibility sensor will no longer
be a part of the U.S. Air Force's OS-21/FSB program come early 2007.
About Belfort Instrument Company:
Belfort used to be a leading provider of weather instruments
to the government, professional meteorology and aviation
markets. Key words: "use to be." They never provided any wind
sensors to the Wright Brothers despite their fantastic
assertion that they did! Historical archives available at the
U.S. Air Force National Museum (1100 Spaatz Street, Wright-
Patterson AFB, OH 45433) tells a very different story and
specifically mentions a "Richards" anemometer which Wilbur
Wright held as pictured
at: "http://wings.avkids.com/Book/Wright/history1_19012.html".
The Belfort aerovane wind system on U.S. Naval aircraft
carriers are currently being replaced with ultrasonic wind
sensors from QPI (11207 Single Oak Road, Fredericksburg, VA
22407) which just won a $94 million dollar contract for the
Moriah Wind System. Belfort wind speed and direction
anemometers found on the ASOS platform are now being
replaced with ultrasonic sensors from the Vaisala Group.
Belfort Instruments Model 6000 visibility sensor will no
longer be a part of the U.S. Air Force's OS-21/FSB program
come early 2007. And despite a $500,000 U.S. government
grant from NASA's Small Aircraft Transportation System (SATS)
program in 2004 to build a low-cost ceilometer, Belfort
didn't possess the technical smarts nor the engineering
know-how to accomplish the task. So now they're importing
the Eliasson CBME 80A laser ceilometer from Muir Matheson.
As one can readily see, Belfort is no longer setting any
standards of measurement in the weather instrumentation
world. And now Belfort is propagating lie after lie about
their fabled company history while trying to steal
thunder from the accomplishments of the Wright Brothers.
According to the National Museum of American History (12th
Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20560),
Belfort founder Julian Friez never made it to Baltimore to
set up shop until sometime in the 1890s even though Belfort
officials fradulently claim the company was founded in 1876.
Thus, there was no 125th anniversary for Belfort to
celebrate in 2001 even though they hosted a party to which
no one came! Belfort's proclamation that it is the "Oldest
Weather Company in the World" is simply yet another Belfort
lie as Thomas Romney Robinson invented the first wind
anemometer in 1846, six years before Julian Friez was born
in 1852. Belfort doesn't even know it's own company history
so they just make it up! You should wonder what other crap
(eg. Digiwx AWOS) they also make up! For more information
about Belfort Instrument and DigiWx, visit dogsh*t.com
Belfort Instrument Company does business under several names
including Gamma Scientific, UDT Instruments, Advanced Retro and
Road Vista.
ROTFLMAO.....
Tom Cryar <***@higherplane.org> wrote:
Here we go again, the Belfort Instrument Company Digiwx Awos
NUMB-NUTS (Bruce R. Robinson and former "hired & fired"
president John S. Hoover) are at it again. They can't get
their "crap research" peer-reviewed nor accepted by any
professional meteorological publications, so now they just
post their bull-shit on the company blogspot. The latest
toilet turd is titled: Reproducing Precipitation Gauge
Inconsistencies Using Modern Wind Deflection Methodologies.
It this latest dump (as in toilet dump) of Belfort propaganda,
Robinson Crusoe and Hoover Vacuum cleaners propose the
construction of tapered metal wind deflectors (e.g. Alter
Shield) around a precipiation gauge to reduce collection
errors. Note: If Belfort Instruments is producing anything,
it will be full of errors!
Quoting: "In 2008 Belfort Instrument Company started testing a
new metal double alter shield that would be easier to install,
self cleaning, quiet and as effective as the US Climate
Reference Network standard SDFIR."
Have you seen this ringed metal donut that Belfort proposes?
Easy to install --- hardly; doesn't it require a concrete
foundation? Self cleaning --- can I piss on it? Quiet --- what
is quiet about metal deflectors clanking away when the wind
blows (that's almost like saying a tree doesn't make a sound
when it falls in the woods unless somebody is around to hear
it). Effective --- now that's a real Belfort streeeeeeeeeetch!
They didn't make mention of quality --- as in "rusted" quality
the day after the Belfort warranty expires!
Quoting: "Based on these preliminary test results and
subsequent field studies it is apparent that the use of either
the SDFIR or the Belfort Double Alter shield significantly
reduces the differences in snow catchment efficiency between
gauges having different geometries and inlet diameters at
wind velocities over 5 m/s."
It is "apparent" --- it's apparent that the numb-nut authors
didn't use any statistics to validate their feeble
observations --- they just jumped to unfound conclusions
in publishing their poppycock! Catchment --- Belfort's authors
need to check their drawers for some CATCHMENT --- I'll bet
they'll find plenty of Digi-SHIT down there!
Neither one of these two buffoons are trained researchers. They
don't know the first thing about the scientific method or
designing a research study. Like all things at Belfort,
somebody drew out the initial plans on a used piece of toilet
paper. And then they run to patent office claiming some
uniqueness. What the hell is unique about this Belfort metal
condom that supposedly protects a rain gauge? Just more smoke
and mirrors from a "nobody" and "wannabe" in the meteorological
instrumentation marketplace. Just say I'll pass on this
latest load of Belfort Instruments BULL-SHIT and save yourself
the grief!
And a word ot two about our sponsor:
Tom Cryar - the man who pilfered Stanwyck Avionics' ASOS/AWOS
display interface for use in Belfort Instruments Digiwx Advisor
software program which Bruce R. Robinson is now fronting with
his Digiwx AWOS product junk offering.
Tom Cryar
PO Box 3635
Edgewood, NM 87015
505-286-5424
tcryar (at) higherplane.org
Tom lives right around the corner from:
Bruce R. Robinson
60 Paako Drive
Sandia Park, NM 87047
brobinson (at) utilipoint.com
Ron Lee from Meadow Lake Airport wrote in Pike's Peak Flyer:
January 2009
The SuperUnicom was shut down in early August 2008 due to
harmful interference on the 122.7 MHz fre-quency A grant was
submitted and approved to get an AWOS III P/T using FAA funds.
Our portion of the cost is around $4,000 although incidentals
may drive it higher... but far below the $25,000 previously
budgeted for an AWOS. One MLAA Board member is attempting to
force a system that is not fully certified down our throats
using the flawed rationale that it is cheaper that the fully
certified systems offered by All Weather Inc and Vaisala. A
major down side to the Belfort system is that pilots will not
be able to access METAR data through FlightService, ADDS, on
their on-board weather systems, etc. We will very likely be
unable to acquire a three letter airport ID and maintenance
will cost much more over its lifetime than with either of the
fully certified systems. Plus in its current implementation,
there is no obvious upgrade path to getting present weather
and lightning information available in an AWOS III P/T system.
It is crucial to the safety of this airport and our usefulness
as a destination airport within the National Airspace System
that we get a state of the art AWOS. With the FAA grant, it is
amazingly affordable. But it is essential that local pilots
become informed on this matter and contact all Board members
to express their view. My opinion... based upon extensive
research on behalf of MLAA members... is that we need a fully
certified AWOS. The minimum configuration is AWOS III, with
AWOS III P/T highly desirable (objective). It needs to be the
number one priority acquisition with a target installation not
later than Spring 2009. It must not be sacrificed to pay
interest on the land acquisition.
His full report is located he
http://home.pcisys.net/~ronlee/MeadowLakeAWOSSelectionAnalysis.doc
If you're considering Digiwx AWOS... READ THIS ANALYSIS FIRST!
Following up on the post regarding the UN-APPROVED, UN-
CERTIFIED and UN-OFFICIAL weather data sprewed by Belfort
Digiwx AWOS, one also needs to note that they only sold 2
units during all of 2009.
Buy anything except Belfort Instrument Digiwx AWOS from Bruce R.
Robinson and company.
These Belfort Digiwx AWOS Chinese made wind sensors are about
the worst products available in the weather instrumentation
marketplace worldwide. This is yet another reason why Belfort
Instruments did not get the following Digiwx AWOS weather
sensors (ie. wind speed, wind direction, temperature, dewpoint,
relative humidity, density altitude, present weather,
precipitation, lightning, ceilometer (aka condensation
altitude)) FAA Approved, nor FAA Ceritified and why the
information SPEWED from a Belfort Digiwx AWOS is NOT OFFICIAL
FAA WEATHER INFORMATION (like you'd find in a FAA METAR
report). Belfort formats their UN-APPROVED, UN-CERTIFIED and
UN-OFFICIAL weather data to make it look like an official
avaition METAR when it's NOT! And that's why you won't find
a single FAA COMMISSIONED Belfort Digiwx AWOS anywhere in
the world!
Bruce R. Robinson's 10 reasons to NOT buy Belfort Digiwx AWOS
Ten reasons for not buying Belfort Instrument Digiwx AWOS:
1) no FAA Approved or FAA Certifed wind speed
2) no FAA Approved or FAA Certifed wind direction
3) no FAA Approved or FAA Certifed temperature
4) no FAA Approved or FAA Certifed dewpoint
5) no FAA Approved or FAA Certifed density altitude
6) no FAA Approved or FAA Certifed visibility
7) no FAA Approved or FAA Certifed precipitation measurement
8) no FAA Approved or FAA Certifed precipitation discriminator
9) no FAA Approved or FAA Certifed ceiling measurement (ceilometer)
10) no FAA Approved or FAA Certifed lightning detection
Then you can always check out the reliability of a Digiwx:
Check it out yourself:
http://www.digiwx-n27.com - CURRENT DATA NOT AVAILABLE
http://www.digiwx-2m8.com - CURRENT DATA NOT AVAILABLE
http://www.digiwx-ambergriscayairport.com - CURRENT DATA NOT AVAILABLE
It's been this way for months!
Not hours, not days, not weeks, but months!
How many more examples of unreliable Digiwx stations do you need?
The United States had 546 commercial service airports as of 2001. See:
http://www.bts.gov/publications/national_transportation_statistics/20..
You won't find a single Digiwx AWOS in use at any of these
commercial service airports where passengers are being
transported. When you consider that Digiwx AWOS is nothing
more than a FAA Approved barometer and visibility sensor,
now you know why!
Why would you put your family at risk to a small airport that
has a Digiwx AWOS in use? Do you have a death wish for your
family?
Here are some other relaible AWOS alternatives that you will
find in use at U.S. commercial service airports including:
http://www.vaisala.com
http://www.allweatherinc.com
http://www.superunicom.com
Belfort Instrument Digiwx AWOS LOWLIFES
BELFORT & GAMMA SCIENTIFIC CO-OWNER
Bruce R. Robinson (serves as Chief PHUCK at Utilipoint Intl)
Ellen H. Robinson (phuck buddy)
60 Paako Drive
Sandia Park, NM 87047
brobinson (at) utilipoint.com
http://www.utilipoint.com/team/robinson.asp
BELFORT & GAMMA SCIENTIFIC CO-OWNER
Nicholas C. Kaufman
Darlene C. Kaufman (phuck buddy)
13667 Marsh Harbor Drive North
Jacksonville, FL 32225
cs (at) quickstrategy.com
http://www.quickstrategy.com/advisors.jsp
CHIEF OPERATING BITCH
Debra S. Alascio (maiden name: Spence)
Santo V. Alascio (drunk husband)
960 Fell Street, Unit 313
Baltimore, MD 21231
DSAlascio (at) belfortinstrument.com
FORMER BELFORT CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER (who was fired)
William C. Gordon (backstabbing dick sucker)
Judith A. Gordon (phuck buddy)
13911 Manor Road
Baldwin, MD 21013
BELFORT DIRECTOR OF SALES
Ralph F. Petragnani
Elisa Petragnani (phuck buddy)
1039 Old Bay Ridge Road
Annapolis, MD 21403-4256
rpetragnani (at) belfortinstrument.com
BELFORT INSTRUMENT DIGIWX AWOS SUPPORT
M. Tylor Burton III
Jane M. Burton (phuck buddy)
25 Dunvegan Road
Catonsville, MD 21228
tylorb (at) gmail.com
BELFORT INSTRUMENT MARKETING MANAGER
Steven K. Eagan
Joy M. Eagan (phuck buddy)
18912 Falls Road
Hampstead, MD 21074
Digiwx AWOS was voted the MOST UNRELIABLE AWOS weather
system in the U.S. marketplace according to a recent poll
of pilots from AOPA.
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.airports/msg/2de1905c0cdcc7a3
Pilots reported that:
1) Digiwx unable to consistently transmit weather data
2) rampant Digiwx outages (that pretty scary)
3) incorrect wind direction and wind speed readings
4) incorrect temperature and dewpoint readings
5) Digiwx AWOS systems that aren't even FAA commissioned
6) non-existant tech support from Belfort Instruments
7) Digiwx that doesn't broadcast over Unicom using mic clicks
8) Digiwx that doesn't broadcast over Unicom using voice reco
9) several airports that have replaced Digiwx with SuperAWOS
10) Belfort Instruments lies about it's involvement with Wright
Brothers
And one commercial pilot offered up these indisputable facts:
Belfort Instruments ancient ceilometer is being retired.
http://www.arm.gov/instruments/instrument.php?id=blc
Belfort Instruments unreliable ASOS wind anemometer is being
replaced.
http://ams.confex.com/ams/pdfpapers/69268.pdf
Belfort Instruments faulty Universal 5-780 rain gage is being
retired.
http://pubs.usgs.gov/wri/wrir034167/toc.html
Belfort Instruments problem-prone Bendix Aerovane is being
replaced.
http://ice.ssec.wisc.edu/databook/dtbk95.doc
Belfort Instrument Type F Naval wind system being phased out.
http://washington.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2002/04/01/story..
ml
Belfort Instruments Model 6000 visibility sensor will no longer
be a part of the U.S. Air Force's OS-21/FSB program come early 2007.
About Belfort Instrument Company:
Belfort used to be a leading provider of weather instruments
to the government, professional meteorology and aviation
markets. Key words: "use to be." They never provided any wind
sensors to the Wright Brothers despite their fantastic
assertion that they did! Historical archives available at the
U.S. Air Force National Museum (1100 Spaatz Street, Wright-
Patterson AFB, OH 45433) tells a very different story and
specifically mentions a "Richards" anemometer which Wilbur
Wright held as pictured
at: "http://wings.avkids.com/Book/Wright/history1_19012.html".
The Belfort aerovane wind system on U.S. Naval aircraft
carriers are currently being replaced with ultrasonic wind
sensors from QPI (11207 Single Oak Road, Fredericksburg, VA
22407) which just won a $94 million dollar contract for the
Moriah Wind System. Belfort wind speed and direction
anemometers found on the ASOS platform are now being
replaced with ultrasonic sensors from the Vaisala Group.
Belfort Instruments Model 6000 visibility sensor will no
longer be a part of the U.S. Air Force's OS-21/FSB program
come early 2007. And despite a $500,000 U.S. government
grant from NASA's Small Aircraft Transportation System (SATS)
program in 2004 to build a low-cost ceilometer, Belfort
didn't possess the technical smarts nor the engineering
know-how to accomplish the task. So now they're importing
the Eliasson CBME 80A laser ceilometer from Muir Matheson.
As one can readily see, Belfort is no longer setting any
standards of measurement in the weather instrumentation
world. And now Belfort is propagating lie after lie about
their fabled company history while trying to steal
thunder from the accomplishments of the Wright Brothers.
According to the National Museum of American History (12th
Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20560),
Belfort founder Julian Friez never made it to Baltimore to
set up shop until sometime in the 1890s even though Belfort
officials fradulently claim the company was founded in 1876.
Thus, there was no 125th anniversary for Belfort to
celebrate in 2001 even though they hosted a party to which
no one came! Belfort's proclamation that it is the "Oldest
Weather Company in the World" is simply yet another Belfort
lie as Thomas Romney Robinson invented the first wind
anemometer in 1846, six years before Julian Friez was born
in 1852. Belfort doesn't even know it's own company history
so they just make it up! You should wonder what other crap
(eg. Digiwx AWOS) they also make up! For more information
about Belfort Instrument and DigiWx, visit dogsh*t.com
Belfort Instrument Company does business under several names
including Gamma Scientific, UDT Instruments, Advanced Retro and
Road Vista.
ROTFLMAO.....
Tom Cryar <***@higherplane.org> wrote:
Here we go again, the Belfort Instrument Company Digiwx Awos
NUMB-NUTS (Bruce R. Robinson and former "hired & fired"
president John S. Hoover) are at it again. They can't get
their "crap research" peer-reviewed nor accepted by any
professional meteorological publications, so now they just
post their bull-shit on the company blogspot. The latest
toilet turd is titled: Reproducing Precipitation Gauge
Inconsistencies Using Modern Wind Deflection Methodologies.
It this latest dump (as in toilet dump) of Belfort propaganda,
Robinson Crusoe and Hoover Vacuum cleaners propose the
construction of tapered metal wind deflectors (e.g. Alter
Shield) around a precipiation gauge to reduce collection
errors. Note: If Belfort Instruments is producing anything,
it will be full of errors!
Quoting: "In 2008 Belfort Instrument Company started testing a
new metal double alter shield that would be easier to install,
self cleaning, quiet and as effective as the US Climate
Reference Network standard SDFIR."
Have you seen this ringed metal donut that Belfort proposes?
Easy to install --- hardly; doesn't it require a concrete
foundation? Self cleaning --- can I piss on it? Quiet --- what
is quiet about metal deflectors clanking away when the wind
blows (that's almost like saying a tree doesn't make a sound
when it falls in the woods unless somebody is around to hear
it). Effective --- now that's a real Belfort streeeeeeeeeetch!
They didn't make mention of quality --- as in "rusted" quality
the day after the Belfort warranty expires!
Quoting: "Based on these preliminary test results and
subsequent field studies it is apparent that the use of either
the SDFIR or the Belfort Double Alter shield significantly
reduces the differences in snow catchment efficiency between
gauges having different geometries and inlet diameters at
wind velocities over 5 m/s."
It is "apparent" --- it's apparent that the numb-nut authors
didn't use any statistics to validate their feeble
observations --- they just jumped to unfound conclusions
in publishing their poppycock! Catchment --- Belfort's authors
need to check their drawers for some CATCHMENT --- I'll bet
they'll find plenty of Digi-SHIT down there!
Neither one of these two buffoons are trained researchers. They
don't know the first thing about the scientific method or
designing a research study. Like all things at Belfort,
somebody drew out the initial plans on a used piece of toilet
paper. And then they run to patent office claiming some
uniqueness. What the hell is unique about this Belfort metal
condom that supposedly protects a rain gauge? Just more smoke
and mirrors from a "nobody" and "wannabe" in the meteorological
instrumentation marketplace. Just say I'll pass on this
latest load of Belfort Instruments BULL-SHIT and save yourself
the grief!
And a word ot two about our sponsor:
Tom Cryar - the man who pilfered Stanwyck Avionics' ASOS/AWOS
display interface for use in Belfort Instruments Digiwx Advisor
software program which Bruce R. Robinson is now fronting with
his Digiwx AWOS product junk offering.
Tom Cryar
PO Box 3635
Edgewood, NM 87015
505-286-5424
tcryar (at) higherplane.org
Tom lives right around the corner from:
Bruce R. Robinson
60 Paako Drive
Sandia Park, NM 87047
brobinson (at) utilipoint.com