Belfort Instruments Digiwx AWOS (ASSWIPE Weather Observation ****)

Belfort Instruments Digiwx AWOS (Amateur Weather Observation ****)


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
thecost is around $4,000 although incidentals may drive it higher...
but far below the $25,000 previously budgetedfor 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/Meado...onAnalysis.doc


If you're considering a 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!


Belfort Instrument Company (aka Gamma Scientific, UDT Instruments,
Advanced Retro and Road Vista is owned by:


Belfort Instrument Digiwx AWOS Lowlifes (mat rip)


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


About Belfort Instrument Company:


Belfort used to be a leading provider of weather instruments to the
government, professional meteorology and aviation markets. Key
ords: "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