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http://www.digiwx-driggs-reed.com is just the latest Digiwx AWOS weather
data that is UNAVAILABLE over the internet. this joins a growing number
of Digiwx Advisor briefings that are consistently not available and
unreliable thru the internet. you can have some of this dogshit too!

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 is
holding as pictured at:
http://www.exn.ca/FlightDeck/Aviators/wright3.cfm. 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