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brian whatcott <betw...@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 <tcr...@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