Driver to drive?

[Danny D.]

dpb wrote, on Fri, 24 Oct 2014 08:22:06 -0500:

So we're back to the ~2X SF for the decking which, while likely not
collapsing while they're building the basic deck, isn't a good starting
point for the overall structure.

I'm forwarding all this to the owner.

The only thing I can say is that it "seems" sturdy when we're both on
it, and that's almost 500 pounds of people alone ...

It's being supported, at the moment, by 6 separate winched vertical
cables (the winches are for level adjustments).

https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5599/15643364251_ddd812a890_b.jpg

 

Am Dienstag, 27. März 2012 23:01:47 UTC schrieb nob...@nowhere.com:

Belfort Instrument Company is selling to a known terrorist country as
evidenced by mention of the DigiWx AWOS on their corporate homepage
sold to:

Pakistan
*Lahore International Airport (LHE/OPLA) RVR System, Lahore Pakistan


And then there is word of this:
During the first two weeks of January 2007, U.S. air strikes targeted
four sites in southern Somalia formerly under al Qaida control where
terrorists have been training and hiding for months.


"As we speak now, the area is being bombarded by the American air
force," a Somali government official told Reuters two weeks ago.


The U.S. attacks targeted an area close to Ras Kamboni, a coastal
village near the Kenyan border where many Islamists are believed to
be hiding after being ousted by Ethiopia-backed government forces,
the official added.


Four places were hit -- Hayo, Garer, Bankajirow and Badmadowe, the
source said. "Bankajirow was the last Islamist holdout. Bankajirow
and Badmadowe were hit hardest," he added.


The Pentagon confirmed only one air strike that took place in the
south of the country, saying that it was part of a wider offensive
aimed at an al-Qaeda cell that includes suspects in the 1998 bombings
of U.S. embassies in east Africa and a hotel in Kenya.


Meanwhile, ABC News quoted U.S. and French military sources as saying
that American U.S. special forces were working with Ethiopian troops
on the ground in operations inside Somalia.


Following a thrust by the U.S. military, U.S. special forces
discovered a Belfort Instruments Digiwx AWOS weather reporting system
on a hill south of Ras Kamboni.


The Belfort Instruments Digiwx AWOS station was not operational as
it had suffered a direct military hit from an explosion of unknown
origin. But the Digiwx name could be clearly seen imprinted on the 15
foot tower which now lays on it side in pieces.


U.S. troops subsequently uncovered handheld Digiwx weather receivers
in two of the camps previoulsy occupied by al-Qaeda terrorists which
apparently had been left behind and abandoned.


How the Belfort Instruments Digiwx AWOS system made it to Somalia and
into terrorists hands is still unknown. Whether al-Qaeda and Osama
bin-Laden organizations are employing Digiwx AWOS units in other
parts of the world is currently unknown.


U.S. troops have been advised to be on the lookout for additional
Digiwx AWOS units under Al-Qaeda and/or Sunni/Shiite control in Iraq
and Afghanistan.


U.S. special forces are reportedly monitoring the two known wireless
frequencies that Digiwx AWOS transmits on, notably 464.6 and 464.75
MHz. British military sources report that signals on both frequencies
have been detected but only occasionally as the terrorists seem to be
running Belfort Instruments Digiwx for only short periods of time.


Belfort Instrument Company (Baltimore, MD, USA), the original
manufacturer of Digiwx AWOS, has had no comment.


Why would an American company be "aiding and abetting" known
terrorists organizations around the world while doing business in
pursuit of the almighty American dollar? Maybe you would want to
contact them and find out why:


Belfort Instrument Company
727 South Wolfe Street
Baltimore, MD 21231
410-342-2626
410-342-7028 (fax)
1-800-937-2353
sales (at) belfortinstrument.com
service (at) belfortinstrument.com


Gamma Scientific President
Richard L. Austin
rlaustin (at) gamma-sci.com


Belfort COO Debra S. Lange (Alascio)
dsalascio (at) belfortinstrument.com


Belfort Co-Owner Bruce R. Robinson
brobinson (at) utilipoint.com


Belfort Co-Owner Nicholas C. Kaufman
cs (at) quickstrategy.com


Belfort Sales Director Ralph F. Petragnani
rpetragnani (at) belfortinstrument.com


Belfort Digiwx AWOS Support Manager M. Tylor Burton
digiwxsupport (at) gmail.com


Much has been written about Belfort Instrument Company's
DigiWx AWOS anonymously for good reason because the Belfort
DigiWx "fur" has been flying since at least 2005. One can
find mention of Belfort's inferior weather station named
DigiWx AWOS as witnessed by:


Ten reasons to NOT buy Belfort DigiWx AWOS (keep reading)
http://www.aviationkb.com/Uwe/Forum.aspx/piloting/5041


I also am of the belief that Belfort Instrument Company has
been actively censoring anyone and any words which dishes
dirt on this inferior DigiWx AWOS weather station.


Now we have word from Belfort Instrument Company of
a "Recommended Service Bulletin" dated April 21, 2011
and numbered 2011-1.


SUBJECT: Unicom Transmission


MODELS AFFECTED: Belfort DigiWx AV100 with
either Technisonic or ICom radios


TIME OF COMPLIANCE: At owners discretion


There have been some discussions by users at congested
airports of not being able to receive the AWOS broadcast
over the Unicom or the weather report stepping on other
Unicom communications. The following suggest may decrease
the problem.


1. On the DigiWx radio, set the squelch well above
the squelch break point this, in turn requires more
power to break the squelch which means traffic has to be
closer to the airport to receive the weather report.


2. The DigiWx standard broadcast mode is using 3 MIC
clicks. At busy airports, there isn t a way for the
DigiWx to determine if someone is clicking the MIC 3
times for the weather or three (3) separate pilots are
clicking the MIC to talk. If this is the case, it might
help to change the number of MIC clicks for weather to
5 MIC clicks. Both of the above recommendations will
help reduce the number of broadcasts from the DigiWx
and they are easy to do and don t cost money.


Belfort Field Service Team
800 937-2353
serv...@belfortinstrument.com


Well, I fly from one of the airports in MT with one
of these DigiWx AWOS pieces of SHIT. And its beyond me
to understand why changing the mic clicks at a congested
airport is going to fix the problem of a DigiWx which
clogs the UNICOM frequency. Just like Belfort said,
DigiWx cannot distinguish who is clicking the mic 3
times. The DigiWx is stupid. When it hears any 3 mic
clicks, it activates and clogs an already congested
UNICOM frequency. We pointed this out to Belfort 3
years ago and THIS WAS AND CONTINUES TO BE THEIR FIX?


If I cut thru the emotion of everything ever written
about the Belfort Instrument Company DigiWx AWOS, I
am now a believer. Belfort doesn't know the first
phucking thing about designing an AWOS to broadcast
over a UNICOM frequency. I have talked with numerous
pilots from other airports who have the SuperAWOS
and the Vaisala AWOS. And they just DON'T have these
clogged frequency problems.


Yep, you read that right:
BUY Belfort Instruments DigiWx-SHIT... Have a PILE OF SHIT guaranteed!


Have you heard about the Meadow Lake Airport AWOS Fiasco?
Quoting, http://meadowlake-airport.com/AWOS.htm reads in short:


"Executive Conclusion: Of the four candidate AWOS manufacturers, only
two meet the threshold and objective system performance levels. These
are systems provided by All Weather Inc (AWI) and Vaisala. The
SuperAWOS by Potomac Aviation does not pass an initial cut due to
maintenance problems encountered with their SuperUnicom installed at
Meadow Lake airport."


"The Belfort DigiWX "AWOS" is not a true FAA fully commission-able
AWOS. Its complete sensor suite is not certified. Installation of this
system at 00V means that we would not have our weather data (METAR)
accessible in the federal database which means that Flight Service and
other sites such as ADDS, XM weather, WSI, etc would not not have
Meadow Lake weather data. The only certified weather info would be
altimeter and visibility. While this does allow Part 91 and 135
instrument approaches, the inability to incorporate its complete METAR
data in the federal system is a deal-breaker."


"The apparent initial cost savings of the initial Belfort DigiWX
acquisition is minimal and not worth the lack of functionality and
usefulness to the national aviation community. Life-cycle cost of the
Belfort system over 15 years is over $27,000 higher than the Vaisala
system."


"It would not allow us to transition to a three letter airport
identifier."


"Bottom line is that the Belfort system represents false economy,
minimal pilot usefulness and is inconsistent with providing the
aviation community services that make this airport attractive to
current and future pilots and businesses."


"Of the remaining systems offered by AWI and Vaisala, Vaisala is the
preferred system."


The complete report highlighting DigiWx shortcomings can be found at:
http://meadowlake-airport.com/AWOSanalysis.doc


Now have a LQQK at this.....


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 frequency 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 Flight Service, 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 spewed by Belfort
Digiwx AWOS, one also needs to note that they only sold 2
units during all of 2011.


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 Certified wind speed
2) no FAA Approved or FAA Certified wind direction
3) no FAA Approved or FAA Certified temperature
4) no FAA Approved or FAA Certified dewpoint
5) no FAA Approved or FAA Certified density altitude
6) no FAA Approved or FAA Certified visibility
7) no FAA Approved or FAA Certified precipitation measurement
8) no FAA Approved or FAA Certified precipitation discriminator
9) no FAA Approved or FAA Certified ceiling measurement (ceilometer)
10) no FAA Approved or FAA Certified lightning detection


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 fraudulently 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


Ellen H. Robinson LIKES MEEZ BIG BLACK MAMBA
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.airports/msg/08232a7de634561c
December 29, 2010


Ellen H. Robinson will SUCK and FUCK you!


Onze afternoon, i wasz catchin a snooze in my backyard on a sunny
day. much to my surprize, i lifted my hat and found my neighborz
Ellen H. Robinson unzipping my pants. she gestured to me with herz
indexes finger over herz slender lips to be quiet. I say figures
okay, she then unzipped my pants and reached in and tuggzed on my
big black mamba! Imediatelzly, my blacks a mamba becomes engorged
with hot burstz of human excitementz. With a big tugz with both of
herz handz, Ellen H. Robinson pluckz me black mamba to a full
erctionz! she then opened herz mouthz and slipsz it over my full
manhoodz. she gagz and coughz a bit but begins her suckin action
upz and downz! she repeatedlyz goez faster and faster untilz i
feelz my venemouz black mamba release a massive explozion into
herz mouth. At first, she triyz to swallow it allz but my venomouz
fluidz keepz jaculating in herz mouthz. Then, she pullz herz head
awayz with herz handz still clenched on my black mamba. she coughz
and gagz a minute over the concretes but then placez herz lips back
on myz black mamba. Once aginz, she jerks it hard withz both handz.
Again, I'z begin to release a strong venemouz fluid at a fullz flow
into herz small mouth. Myz black mamba squirmz in herz handz as i
release all of my venemous fluid from myz snake into herz mouthz.
i'z kannotz waitz til my neighbor Ellen H. Robinson sneaks back
over to my house for somz afternoonz delight. Next timz, me thinks
i shall let my black mamba go hogwildz in herz anuz. if she suckz
me this good next time, i shall let myz snake ezcape in herz cunt
andz give her zome my brotherly love. Myz black mamba has neverz
felt so good after Ellen H. Robinson wrapped herz lipz around the
big headz on meez mamba!


Belfort Instrument Company does business under several names
including Gamma Scientific, UDT Instruments, Advanced Retro,
Road Vista and KR Acquisitions Corporation.


Does anyone have anything good to say about Belfort's Digiwx AWOS?


http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=digiwx+shit
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=digiwx+awos+shit
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=belfort+instruments+shit
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=belfort+instrument+company+shit
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=gamma+scientific+shit
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=udt+instruments+shit
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=roadvista+shit


BUY Belfort Instruments DigiWx-SHIT... Have a PILE OF SHIT guaranteed!


Google Belfort Instruments owners and managers:
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=jihadist+bruce+r+robinson
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=bruce+r+robinson+pedophilia
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=jihadist+nicholas+c+kaufman
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=nicholas+c+kaufman+pedophilia
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=murderer+debra+lange
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=debra+lange+pedophilia
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=ralph+f+petragnani+bullshit
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=sexual+deviant+ralph+f+petragnani

Mark W. Decker has been BLOWING both Judge James J. Lombardi
and Judge Arthur M. Monty Ahalt who, in return, have been porking
Decker's three daughters named Libby, Audrey & Hannah Decker!

GUILTY FEDERAL BRIBER Mark W. Decker
http://www.oalj.dol.gov/PUBLIC/ARB/DECISIONS/ARB_DECISIONS/SOX/06_104.SOXP.PDF

http://tinyurl.com/markwdecker - his BIGGEST LIE yet!

http://tinyurl.com/libbydecker
http://tinyurl.com/audreydecker
http://tinyurl.com/hannahdecker


Belfort Instrument Company
727 South Wolfe Street
Baltimore, MD 21031

Ebosswatch.com rating with Belfort Instrument Company
http://www.ebosswatch.com/Reviews/Mark-W.-Decker/1412568293
Rated by his peers as "Unfavorable" in 7 different job categories

And now Belfort Instrument Company (dba DigiWx AWOS, Gamma
Scientific, UDT Instruments, Advanced Retro, RoadVista, KR
Acquisition Corporation) finds itself in United States Bankruptcy
Court as evidenced by:
http://www.amrcaseinfo.com/pdflib/1631_15463.pdf

Belfort Instrument Company financials are so BAD that CEO Bruce R.
Robinson has his primary residence in a trust as noted at:
http://www.city-data.com/bernalillo-county/P/Paa-Ko-Drive-2.html

You might ask "Why would someone put their home in a Trust?" at:
http://belfort-instrument-company.pissedconsumer.com/belfort-instrument

"Belfort's owners have "valuables" (like their homes) held in a trust
to prevent creditors (in this case, the bank that lent Belfort
Instrument Company all that money) from seizing their personal
home(s) when Belfort can't pay back the business loans. In the case
of Belfort Instrument Company, this was a smart move (some might
consider this a sneaky move also) because I pulled Belfort's credit
reports from the 3 main credit bureaus and Belfort is currently
delinquent and "past due" with several creditors by more than 90
days and in some cases 120 days. This means the money isn't coming
in fast enough from sales to pay for the company's debts. I even
found notes that some of Belfort's creditors are on a "cash only
basis" meaning Belfort needs to cough up money for goods and services
(raw materials) before another company will even sell them those goods
and services. This is NOT a pretty picture. This has been going on
for years. If you would be inclined to buy finished product from
Belfort, you may find a company which doesn't stand behind that
product because they went out of business. Info from Dun & Bradstreet
indicates turnover in this very small privately-held company at the
managerial and executive level so people's heads are probably
rolling there and it is likely only a matter of time before this
business is no more!

So who was driving these companies into the hole...... because there
is a common theme here...... his name is Mark W. Decker...... and he
lives at: 289 Long Point Road, Crownsville, MD 21032-1853. Call for
a personal appointment if you'd like to see how he can drive your
organization off a cliff!

Wanker Mark W. Decker Shatters World Masturbation Record
http://mark.w.decker.mediafetcher.com/news/top_stories/worldrecord.php

ATTENTION: Mark Wilson Decker is apparently posing as a photographer
based upon his Workface, LinkedIn, Posterous, Twitter About.me,
BigSight, Ziki, tBlog and Wordpress profiles --- just goes to show
you how sneaky AND creepy he really is! He's an unemployed fired POS!

WHAT WOULD MARK W. DECKER BE TRYING TO HIDE???

Well, have a LOOK at this:
Two federal cases that specifically mention Mark W. Decker:
U.S. Department of Labor Case # 2006-SOX-57
U.S. Department of Labor Case # 2006-SOX-81

According to:
http://www.mombu.com/aviation/civil-aviation/t-faa-dol-osha-fdic-doj-
investigating-belfort-instrument-digiwx-awos-10453477.html

Mark Wilson Decker was investigated for:

"FAA is investigating Belfort Instrument President Mark W. Decker and
Digiwx AWOS Tech M. Tylor Burton for bribing federal FAA officials."
"DOL is investigating Belfort Instrument President Mark W. Decker
for retaliating after suing a former employee who ratted Decker
Pecker out under a federal whistleblower protection program."
Did Bruce R. Robinson, Nicholas C. Kaufman, Debra S. Alascio Lange,
Ralph F. Petragnani and M. Tylor Burton aid in this conspiracy?

And there is MORE:
All the info contained herein has been published in some form
since at least 2005. Mark Wilson Decker gave up any legal right
(he may now be asserting) a long time ago that this info is
injurious to him or his family since the statute of limitations
to bring a libel lawsuit is 1 year in each of the 50 U.S. states.

<brob...@utilipoint.com> wrote:

Three little w h o r e s,
Three little w h o r e s,
See how they s u c k,
See how they f u c k,
Their daddy feels them up all day,
Their daddy probes their c u n t s all day,
Their days pimps them out all nite,
They're three D e c k e r w h o r e s!

Somebody is censoring this stuff; the truth must hurt!

Onze afternoon, i wasz catchin a snooze in my backyard on a sunny
day. Much to my surprize, i lifted my hat and found my neighborz
Jenn Racey unzipping my pants. Shez gestured to me with herz indexes
finger over herz slender lips to be quiet. I say figures okay, she
then unzipped my pants and reached in and tuggzed on my big black
mamba! Immediatelzly, my blacks a mamba becomes engorged with hot
burstz of human excitementz. With a big tugz with both of herz
handz, Jennifer Lynn Racey pluckz me black mamba to a full erctionz!
Shez then opened herz mothz and slipsz it over my full manhoodz. She
gagz and coughz a bit but begins herz suckin action upz and downz!
She repeatedlyz goez faster and faster untilz i feelz my venemouz
black mamba release a massive explozion into herz mouth. At first,
shez triyz to swallow it but my venomouz fluidz keepz jaculating
in herz mouth. Then, she pullz herz head awayz with herz handz
still clenched on my black mamba. She coughz and gagz a minute over
the concretes but then placez herz lips back on myz black mamba.
Once aginz, she jerks it hard withz both handz. Again, I'z begin to
release a strong venemouz fluid at a fullz flow into herz small
mouth. Myz black mamba squirmz in herz handz as i release all of my
venemous fluid from myz snake into herz mouthz. i'z kannotz waitz
til my neighbor Jennifer Lynn Racey sneaks back over to my house for
zome afternoonz delight. Next timz, me thinks i shall let my black
mamba go hogwildz in herz anuz. If she suckz me this good next time,
i shall let myz snake ezcape in herz anuz andz give her zome my
brotherly love. Myz black mamba has neverz felt so good after
Jennifer Lynn Racey wrapped herz lipz around the big headz on meez
mamba!

Mark W. Decker has a boat named Spoony:
http://www.boatinfoworld.com/registration.asp?vn=96438

What do you think the chances are that he has already
"spooned" and felt-up all three of his daughters (Audrey,
Hannah and Libby Decker) aboard his boat with his "vessel"
which he has a propensity to play with.... even in public!
Let's see if this causes Mark Kacucha some legal trouble:

Belfort President Mark W. Decker (U.S. Naval Academy alumnus), let
me tell you about this lowlife. Starts the workday between 9-10AM
by checking work and personal email. Come 11-11:30AM, he's ready
to go to the local gym to work out. Gets back in the office around
1PM and only then decides to take a lunch break as if the gym work-
out didn't count for a lunch break. By 1:30PM, he's checking work and
personal email and maybe making a few entires in his family diary
which he keeps at work on the company hard drive. Come 3-4PM, he's
getting anxious and is looking to wrap up his workday so he can go
home and coach soccer league for one of his three daughters.
Needless to say, all thru-out his "playful" workday, one gets to
see all his dirty nasty habits including:

1) scratching his balls,
2) stroking his c o c k,
3) farting (and then asking someone else if they farted),
4) belching,
5) biting his fingernails,
6) picking his nose (and eating the choice boogies),
7) scratching his ass,
8) picking at his toenails
9) coughing (he has a chronic productive cough... yuck)
10) he has kidney stones (and urinates with pain)

Now keep in mind that this is a US Naval Academy graduate (Class of
1979) who's motto is "don't do as I do" but "do as I say!" Makes
complete sense because he superiors in the U.S. Navy recognized his
lack of leadership very early on. That's why Lt. Decker didn't last
in the U.S. Navy and decided to enter the corporate world where he
could use his skills of conniving, lying, denying, concealing,
deceiving, and making things up!

Let's get this straight, he been with at least three different
companies over the past dozen years, all where he had a hand in
running them into the ground. Doesn't a midshipman know how to steer
a boat to prevent it from running into the ground? He's been with:

1) Unc, Inc.
2) Mentor Technologies
3) Belfort Instruments

And now there appears to be evidence that he either resigned or
was fired from Belfort Instrument Company for "poor performance."
Seems like he spent four years trying to sell DigiWx and DigiWx AWOS
and was a miserable failure at all of it while dragging down the
finances for the rest of the Belfort company. It's easy to conclude
that Mark W. Decker is "all that and a bag of chips" along with
some "s h i t" salza on the side!

How many freakin passes does this lowlife (who was born with a silver
spoon in his mouth) get? What kind of role m o d e l is he for his
three daughters Audrey, Hanna, and Libby Decker? And how about his
wife Jennifer Racey who decided to keep her maiden name (maybe
because she knew about the lowlife she married).

Why do we have lowlifes like Mark W. Decker around? This guy thinks
he the best thing since sliced bread. He doesn't think his s h i t
stinks and he doesn't think too highly of woman in general either.
Wonder how he'll explain that one to his three daughters one day?

Mark W. Decker (the "w" stands for "wiener" which he scratches)
Jennifer L. Racey (probably wife)
289 Long Point Road (assessed value of $968,280 as of 1/1/05)
Crownsville, MD 21032-1853
DOB: January 7, 1957 according to http://anybirthday.com
SSN: 212-60-0049

And then we have this:
Hannah, Audrey & Libby Decker (daughters) were found dead in a
second family home owned by Ralph P. Decker, Mary Ann Decker, Mark
W. Decker and Jennifer L. Racey according to land records available
from the Maryland State Department of Assessments and Taxation. No
immediate cause of d e a t h was available. The second family home
is located at: 11 Silverwood Circle SILVERWOOD Unit 3, Building 11,
SC 3, Annapolis, MD 21403.

No explanation was available about how Hannah, Audrey & Libby Decker
ended up in this second family home versus the other family home at
289 Long Point Road, Crownsville, MD 21032-1853 which is noted as
being the family's primary residence according to land records
available from the Maryland State Department of Assessments and
Taxation.

And then this:
COCK Scratching Belfort Digiwx President Mark W. Decker
http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilber...-20070812.html

Pecker Scratching Belfort Digiwx AWOS President Mark W. Decker:
PREPARE A PROPOSAL FOR THIS CUSTOMER

Dilbert: WHY ME?

Pecker Scratching Belfort Digiwx AWOS President Mark W. Decker: YOU
WERE WALKING BY. I HAD IT IN MY HANDS

Dilbert: WE CAN'T WIN THIS BUSINESS. WE DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT PRODUCTS
OR EXPERTISE.

Pecker Scratching Belfort Digiwx AWOS President Mark W. Decker: JUST
SAY WE DO. WE'LL FIGURE IT OUT LATER

Dilbert: THEY KNOW WE DON'T. AND WE'D STILL BE THE MOST EXPENSIVE
BIDDER.

Pecker Scratching Belfort Digiwx AWOS President Mark W. Decker: BID
LOW. WE'LL MAKE IT UP WITH CHNAGE ORDERS AND UNEXPECTED ESSENTIAL
UPGRADES.

Dilbert: IN OTHER WORDS, I'VE BEEN RANDOMLY ASSIGNED TO CREATE LIES
FOR A PROPOSAL WE CAN WIN FOR A SERVICE WE CAN'T PERFORM.

Pecker Scratching Belfort Digiwx AWOS President Mark W. Decker: YOU
MAKE COMPETING SOUND BAD.

Just a typical day at Belfort Instrument Digiwx AWOS company with the
likes of Pecker Scratching Belfort Digiwx AWOS President Mark W.
Decker, Resident MURDERER Debra S. Alascio Von Lange (aka Debra
Lange), Jowl, Belly & Ass Ralph F. Petragnani, and the other THREE
STOOGES: William C. Gordon, Bruce R. Robinson and Nicholas C.
Kaufman.

Lastly, we have this:
Belfort Instruments Digiwx has t-shirts emblazoned with the phrase:
"The Wright Brothers Relied on Us"

American history seems to tell a very different story!

There is a press release with President Mark W. Decker
name on it as the contact at:
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2003/6/prweb67805.php

Mr. Decker says "The Wright Brothers monitored these
(i.e. Belfort's) instruments as they prepared for
their famous flight on December 17th, 1903."

THIS IS COMPLETE BULL-SHIT (Mark W. Decker style)

Here is what the Wright Brothers really wrote
on December 17, 1903:

"We had a 'Richard' hand anemometer with which we
measured the velocity of the wind. Measurements made
just before starting the first flight showed velocities
of 11 to 12 meters per second, or 24 to 27 miles per
hour. Measurements made just before the last flight
gave between 9 and 10 meters per second. One made just
after showed a little over 8 meters."

And then there is that indisputable picture of:
WILBUR WRIGHT USING A RICHARD'S ANEMOMETER (picture)
http://wings.avkids.com/Book/Wright/history1_19012.html

Belfort Instrument Company President Mark W. Decker
is trying to re-write history to include mention of
Belfort and/or Friez. This is a shame and a sham!
Buy anything except Belfort Instrument Digiwx AWOS
from Bruce R. Robinson and company.

MARK WILSON DECKER (Class of 1979 U.S. Naval Academy)
http://www.e-yearbook.com/yearbooks/
United_States_Naval_Academy_Lucky_Bag_Yearbook/
1979/Page_167.html

Mark came all the way across town to attend Canoe U. Plebe year he
became a news column regular from a starting position on the varsity
soccer team and co- captain of the plebe lax team. Youngster year
brought endless hours of study and a permanent nickname, " Max."
He strove to max all he did and was involved in everything from hang
gliding to " 4 pts. " and stars and strips. His home became the
refuge for many youngster autos and drunk classmates, none the
less the welcome mat was always out, and the hospitality was
deeply appreciated. Second class year saw the dawning of the
star fleet command of which Max was the CO. Even though Mark
had female pussy connections in nearly every college in Maryland
and Virginia, his 20-10 was primarily focused on the Ivy Leagues.
Whether commanding a squadron or managing a corporation,
you can bet Max will maximize and run it into the ground.

Last but not least:
Path: g2news1.google.com!...
From: George Orwell >
Newsgroups: md.annapolis
Subject: Mentor Technologies Mark W. Decker liked playing pocket
pool
Message-ID: >
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 22:07:29 +0200 (CEST)
Mail-To-News-Contact:
Organization:

I saw where Mark W. Decker is now working at Belfort Instrumentation
as I always wonder where he went after skipping out of Dodge City
just barely when he left Mentor Technologies. If he hadn't left
in 2001, Decker would have been shown the exit after his dismal
performance at Mentor. The thing I will always remember about Decker
was his passion for playing pocket pool, the kind one plays when
they have something nasty growing in their crotch out of control. I
mean get some Desenex or something for that jungle rot. He was
absolutely icky just watching him work his hands in his pants pocket
as he attempted to reach his private parts in search of a much
needed scratch. Several coworkers wondered exactly why he scratched
his crotch in public for everyone to see and notice. I guess he
figured that he could be a Baltimore Oriole Cal Ripkin on the
baseball diamond and nobody would notice, well many people did
notice and found it disgusting and repulsive to say the least.
I always wonder what his wife must have growing in her crotch as a
result of him passing along his germs and god knows what else to
her. Anybody at Belfort Instrumetnation seen Decker digging at his
pecker in public? I would bet he still is!

Belfort Instruments suing fired worker Mark W. Decker

A Baltimore manufacturer of weather instruments is suing a fired
employee it claims is on an anonymous Internet rampage. Belfort
Instrument says Mark W. Decker has been harassing current Belfort
employees via e-mail, calling the company's customers and partners
alleging unethical business practices, and posting trade secrets on
the Internet. Defendant Decker has an alarming history of engaging
in such 'anonymous' Internet attacks against those who he believes
may have slighted him (including past employers), and, absent a TRO,
will continue his historical pattern of making outrageous & harmful
attacks against the material business interests of Belfort
Instrument, reads Belfort's complaint, filed earlier this month in
Baltimore County Circuit Court. Belfort, which obtained a temporary
restraining order against Decker on Nov. 15, is suing him for
misappropriating trade secrets, breach of contract, defamation and
tortious interference with contractual relations. The company is
seeking $1M. After consulting with his client, Belfort attorney Doug
W. Desmarais declined to speak about the case. My client's position
is that this is a dispute that they have chosen to resolve through
legal channels, and they're going to let it play out through legal
channels, Desmarais said. Decker could not be located for com-
ment; his phone number is unlisted and a reverse search of his
Annapolis, MD address produced no results. According to the
complaint, when Decker started working for Belfort in 2001, he
signed a contract promising that, if he left the company, for two
years afterward he would not say negative things about it; if he
did, he would face court action. He is also bound by the Maryland
Uniform Trade Secrets Act not to divulge privileged information,
Belfort says. Decker was fired on Oct. 20 of this year and then
started to harass his ex-girlfriend, still a Belfort employee, via
e- mail, the suit reads. He also allegedly emailed the company's
general mailbox anonymously, promising to fight back against
the company and drive it out of business. The company also
claims he called their customers and made untrue allegations.
Decker also used an Internet newsgroup to criticize the Belfort
product he had been in charge of marketing, the DigiWx AWOS digital
weather transmitter, calling it DigiSHIT, Belfort claims. He also
allegedly listed which of Belfort's customers were using DigiWx. The
motion does not state how Belfort knows that Decker is behind the
anonymous e-mails, phone calls and Internet postings, but a letter
from Desmarais to Decker warns that Belfort can easily trace the
communications to Decker. Belfort also claims that Decker has a
history of using pseudonyms to criticize whoever has offended [him]
on a particular day. Indeed, a search of Google's newsgroups shows
lots of chatter about Decker, including several posts purporting to
unmask him as the anonymous source of negative comments about
Baltimore.

Does anyone have anything good to say about Belfort's Digiwx AWOS?

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=digiwx+shit
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=digiwx+awos+shit
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=belfort+instruments+shit
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=belfort+instrument+company+shit

BUY Belfort Instruments DigiWx-SHIT... Have a PILE OF SHIT
guaranteed!

Google Belfort Instruments owners and managers:
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=jihadist+bruce+r+robinson
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=bruce+r+robinson+pedophilia
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=jihadist+nicholas+c+kaufman
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=jihadist+nicholas+c+kaufman
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=murderer+debra+lange
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=debra+lange+pedophilia
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=ralph+f+petragnani+bullshit
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=sexual+deviant+ralph+f+petragnani
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=kiddy+diddler+mark+w+decker
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=child+molester+mark+w+decker
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=sex+pervert+mark+w+decker
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=federal+briber+mark+w+decker
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=pussy+craving+mark+w+decker

Meet the Decker Family of Phantom Shitters:
http://douche.bag.mark.w.decker.wasarrested.com/phantom-shitter
http://pervert.mark.wilson.decker.wasarrested.com/phantom-shitter
http://hobag.jennifer.decker.wasarrested.com/phantom-shitter
http://hoe-bag.jennifer.l.racey.wasarrested.com/phantom-shitter
http://whore.jennifer.lynn.racey.wasarrested.com/phantom-shitter
http://slut.jennifer.lynn.racey.decker.wasarrested.com/phantom-shitter
http://hoe-bag.libby.decker.wasarrested.com/phantom-shitter
http://slut.audrey.decker.wasarrested.com/phantom-shitter
http://whore.hannah.decker.wasarrested.com/phantom-shitter

Rest in Hell Decker Family:
http://mark-w-decker.is-dead.com
http://jennifer-l-decker.is-dead.com
http://jennifer-l-racey.is-dead.com
http://libby-decker.is-dead.com
http://audrey-decker.is-dead.com
http://hannah-decker.is-dead.com

SHITFACE & WANKER
http://markwdecker.com.is-a-jerk.com
http://markwdecker.net.is-a-jerk.com
http://markwdecker.jux.com.is-a-jerk.com
http://markwdecker.tblog.com.is-a-jerk.com
http://markwdecker.ohlog.com.is-a-jerk.com
http://markwdecker.publr.com.is-a-jerk.com
http://markwdecker.emurse.com.is-a-jerk.com
http://markwdecker.anyhow5.com.is-a-jerk.com
http://markwdecker.blogspot.com.is-a-jerk.com
http://markwdecker.bloginom.com.is-a-jerk.com
http://markwdecker.wordpress.com.is-a-jerk.com
http://markwdecker.blogspirit.com.is-a-jerk.com

Here's some MORE links for the Mark Wilson Decker Shitting Clan:

http://mark-w-decker.is-fat.com
http://mark-w-decker.is-dead.com
http://mark-w-decker.is-a-jerk.com
http://mark.w.decker.wasarrested.com/hacker
http://mark.w.decker.wasarrested.com/phantom-shitter
http://mark.w.decker.mediafetcher.com/news/top_stories/worldrecord
http://mark.w.decker.is.stupid.isbisexual.com
http://mark.w.decker.is-retarded.com
http://mark.w.decker.is-addicted.com
http://mark.w.decker.is-infected.com
http://mark.w.decker.is-stupid.com

http://cunt.jennifer-l-decker.is-fat.com
http://cunt.jennifer-l-decker.is-dead.com
http://cunt.jennifer-l-decker.is-a-jerk.com
http://cunt.jennifer.l.decker.wasarrested.com/hacker
http://cunt.jennifer.l.decker.wasarrested.com/phantom-shitter
http://cunt.jennifer.l.decker.mediafetcher.com/news/top_stories/worldrecord
http://cunt.jennifer.l.decker.is.stupid.isbisexual.com
http://cunt.jennifer.l.decker.is-retarded.com
http://cunt.jennifer.l.decker.is-addicted.com
http://cunt.jennifer.l.decker.is-infected.com
http://cunt.jennifer.l.decker.is-stupid.com

http://hobag.jennifer-l-racey.is-fat.com
http://hobag.jennifer-l-racey.is-dead.com
http://hobag.jennifer-l-racey.is-a-jerk.com
http://hobag.jennifer.l.racey.wasarrested.com/hacker
http://hobag.jennifer.l.racey.wasarrested.com/phantom-shitter
http://hobag.jennifer.l.racey.mediafetcher.com/news/top_stories/worldrecord
http://hobag.jennifer.l.racey.is.stupid.isbisexual.com
http://hobag.jennifer.l.racey.is-retarded.com
http://hobag.jennifer.l.racey.is-addicted.com
http://hobag.jennifer.l.racey.is-infected.com
http://hobag.jennifer.l.racey.is-stupid.com

http://slut.libby-decker.is-fat.com
http://slut.libby-decker.is-dead.com
http://slut.libby-decker.is-a-jerk.com
http://slut.libby.decker.wasarrested.com/hacker
http://slut.libby.decker.wasarrested.com/phantom-shitter
http://slut.libby.decker.mediafetcher.com/news/top_stories/worldrecord
http://slut.libby.decker.is.stupid.isbisexual.com
http://slut.libby.decker.is-retarded.com
http://slut.libby.decker.is-addicted.com
http://slut.libby.decker.is-infected.com
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http://hobag.audrey-decker.is-fat.com
http://hobag.audrey-decker.is-dead.com
http://hobag.audrey-decker.is-a-jerk.com
http://hobag.audrey.decker.wasarrested.com/hacker
http://hobag.audrey.decker.wasarrested.com/phantom-shitter
http://hobag.audrey.decker.mediafetcher.com/news/top_stories/worldrecord
http://hobag.audrey.decker.is.stupid.isbisexual.com
http://hobag.audrey.decker.is-retarded.com
http://hobag.audrey.decker.is-addicted.com
http://hobag.audrey.decker.is-infected.com
http://hobag.audrey.decker.is-stupid.com

http://whore.hannah-decker.is-fat.com
http://whore.hannah-decker.is-dead.com
http://whore.hannah-decker.is-a-jerk.com
http://whore.hannah.decker.wasarrested.com/hacker
http://whore.hannah.decker.wasarrested.com/phantom-shitter
http://whore.hannah.decker.mediafetcher.com/news/top_stories/worldrecord
http://whore.hannah.decker.is.stupid.isbisexual.com
http://whore.hannah.decker.is-retarded.com
http://whore.hannah.decker.is-addicted.com
http://whore.hannah.decker.is-infected.com
http://whore.hannah.decker.is-stupid.com

Ralph Pryor Decker
Holiday Hill Marina Owner
3912 Calawasse Road
Edgewater, MD 21037
www.boatinfoworld.com/registration.asp?vn=161586
Owns the Shiloh III which he masturbates all over!

http://ralph-p-decker.is-fat.com
http://ralph-p-decker.is-dead.com
http://ralph-p-decker.is-a-jerk.com
http://ralph.p.decker.wasarrested.com/hacker
http://ralph.p.decker.wasarrested.com/phantom-shitter
http://ralph.p.decker.mediafetcher.com/news/top_stories/worldrecord
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http://ralph.p.decker.is-retarded.com
http://ralph.p.decker.is-addicted.com
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http://holiday.hill.marina.wasarrested.com/hacker
http://holiday.hill.marina.wasarrested.com/phantom-shitter
http://holiday.hill.marina.mediafetcher.com/news/top_stories/worldrecord
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http://holiday.hill.marina.is-retarded.com
http://holiday.hill.marina.is-addicted.com
http://holiday.hill.marina.is-infected.com
http://holiday.hill.marina.is-stupid.com

THIS BITCH IS DEAD!
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http://mary.ann.w.decker.wasarrested.com/phantom-shitter
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http://mary.ann.w.decker.is-retarded.com
http://mary.ann.decker.is-addicted.com
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http://mary.ann.decker.is-stupid.com

Deborah Ann Bradford (nee: Decker)
Blythe T. Bradford III
917 Ridgewood Avenue
Annapolis, MD 21401-3345

http://deborah-a-bradford.is-fat.com
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http://deborah.a.bradford.wasarrested.com/phantom-shitter
http://deborah.a.bradford.mediafetcher.com/news/top_stories/worldrecord
http://deborah.a.bradford.is.stupid.isbisexual.com
http://deborah.a.bradford.is-retarded.com
http://deborah.a.bradford.is-addicted.com
http://deborah.a.bradford.is-infected.com
http://deborah.a.bradford.is-stupid.com

David Wayne Decker (divorced from Lisa Marie Scott)
Decker Construction Company
342 Hall Road
Crownsville, MD 21032-1821

http://david-w-decker.is-fat.com
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http://david-w-decker.is-a-jerk.com
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http://david.w.decker.is.stupid.isbisexual.com
http://david.w.decker.is-retarded.com
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Looking for this LOSER in Annapolis, MD...
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http://www.offendex.com/directory/KY/D/William_L_Decker_1285599

 

[Lasse Langwadt Christense]

Den torsdag den 30. oktober 2014 18.37.22 UTC+1 skrev Mike Cook:

Looking for LCD graphic display approximately 6 inches by 1.5 inches (150 mm
by 30 mm). High-resolution not required; I'm apparently limited by my size
requirements.

I don't see anything more than square-ish displays on e-bay.

Suggestions?

Thanks.

close enough ?

http://www.buydisplay.com/default/5-8-inch-industrial-lcd-display-256x64-graphic-module-white-on-blue

-Lasse

 

?"I'm not ragging on you. I am ranting in general. I see this often on

web pages. Someone decided it looks nicer to use less contrast on their
pages. Fine if you are browsing for beauty. I just want to be able to
read the durn things. "

I agree with you 3,000 %. What do these people use for eyes ? Don't they realize the stuff they sell is not being bought by 16 year old webdesigners with 20/05 vision, no floaters and absolutely clear lenses ? If I was the owner of the company I would say something and get them to fix it. If the owner of the company does not do that, draw your own conclusion. Not knowing the market is not good. Look how old osme of htese engineers are, some with even worse eyesight than me and that is saying something. (runs in the family)

There is usually a workaround though just so you know, mark the text. I mean drag the mouse across it as if you are going to copy and paste it somewhere, just don't hit copy. I have to do this more than I'd like for that exact reason. What do these idiots think ?

I fact I prefe white text on a black background, like old DOS. At least I can read that. Of course now asshole Windows makes it white on blue. Why ?

And another rant, when Windows decided that it was going to be black on white, were they getting kickbacks from monitor manufacturers for wearing out the cathodes in the CRTs ? I'd bet, we know they are in cahootz with every other hardware manfacturer out there.

Of course now with LCD it is a whole different story, but that is no excuse for before. Hell, 15 years ago I started to turn down the brightness on my monitors.

Anyway, to actually comment on the OP, I am a bit surprised that Digikey and all them have nothing like what he needs.

 

[Jan Panteltje]

On a sunny day (Thu, 30 Oct 2014 16:30:23 -0700 (PDT)) it happened
jurb6006@gmail.com wrote in
<3876a637-c831-4b1a-b421-93e76c4680b7@googlegroups.com>:

?"I'm not ragging on you. I am ranting in general. I see this often on
web pages. Someone decided it looks nicer to use less contrast on their=

pages. Fine if you are browsing for beauty. I just want to be able to
read the durn things. "

I agree with you 3,000 %. What do these people use for eyes ? Don't they re=
alize the stuff they sell is not being bought by 16 year old webdesigners w=
ith 20/05 vision, no floaters and absolutely clear lenses ? If I was the ow=
ner of the company I would say something and get them to fix it. If the own=
er of the company does not do that, draw your own conclusion. Not knowing t=
he market is not good. Look how old osme of htese engineers are, some with =
even worse eyesight than me and that is saying something. (runs in the fami=
ly)

There is usually a workaround though just so you know, mark the text. I mea=
n drag the mouse across it as if you are going to copy and paste it somewhe=
re, just don't hit copy. I have to do this more than I'd like for that exac=
t reason. What do these idiots think ?

I fact I prefe white text on a black background, like old DOS. At least I c=
an read that. Of course now asshole Windows makes it white on blue. Why ?=


And another rant, when Windows decided that it was going to be black on whi=
te, were they getting kickbacks from monitor manufacturers for wearing out =
the cathodes in the CRTs ? I'd bet, we know they are in cahootz with every =
other hardware manfacturer out there.

Of course now with LCD it is a whole different story, but that is no excuse=
for before. Hell, 15 years ago I started to turn down the brightness on my=
monitors.

Anyway, to actually comment on the OP, I am a bit surprised that Digikey an=
d all them have nothing like what he needs.

I agree to some point.
Just yesterday when buiding something with a lot of SMDs I realized how lost
I would have been without glasses....
At age 40 you probably had to find an other job..
Extrapolating on that I thought when are we gona get the brain amplifier sort of
gadget as standard thing people have...


But on the more practical side, when in color TV we had to learn something called colormetrics.
It is about how colors are formed by mixing and addition, how the human eye perceives this,
and it should be required stuff for web page designers really.

Personally I run a lot of terminals black text on a white background.
The reason for black text on a white background is simple:
the light intensity changes are much more pleasant to the eye than when using a black background.
because of the overal white the eye's pupil, sensitivity, is set to a fixed level,
set your white to the environment light intensity.
The little text that can or cannot be on screen makes little difference.
When staring at a big black surface however and then looking into say the room,
then the eye needs to adapt every time.
For perceived 'white' on teefees or moneytors it is safe to use the formula: white = .3Red + .59Green + .11Blue
From this you can for example see that blue on green is good contrast, and you should avoid blue on red.
Any combination there of, its simple, blue on white is good, blue on black is the worst (only 11% contrast).
All this should be required stuff, as well as saturation, contrast, blacklevel, color temperature etc etc,
for those who make content displayed ANNIE WHERE, from moneytors to traffic signs.
....

 

[George Herold]

On Friday, October 31, 2014 10:02:10 PM UTC-4, Robert Macy wrote:

Anybody have any inkling of what is going on here?

trying to make a simple 1/f gaussian white noise source that has an
intercept at F0, this case approx 100Hz. I have the pdf and white noise
source, very flat. To control the charactersitics and get that weird
rolloff so the 'energy' is 1/f is posing some difficulties.

Thought process was to take the white noie source and put it through a
filter that exhibits 1/f. I have that in the below schematic. from 0.1Hz
to 100 Hz, 3 decades, the filter's output drops only 30 dB, not the
standard 60 dB like a single capaictor would do. PERFECT! Running the
white noise through that filter seemed like it should produce a nice 1/f
down to intercept and then flat. However, run it and you will see that the
FFT of the time waveform coming out drops 60dB over the three decades, not
30dB as expected.

What's going on?

I suspect there is an interaction between random waveforms and the complex
value of the capacitive filter that causes the spectrum to be wrong, but ??

snip circuit

I'm too lazy to download your circuit. (no ltspice on this computer.)
Are you trying to make a 1/f with analog?
Maybe just add a 1/f source to your white one. Adjusting levels for the desired corner. Biased carbon comp resistors show "nice" 1/f noise.

George H.

 

[RobertMacy]

On Fri, 31 Oct 2014 20:55:43 -0700, Tim Wescott
<seemywebsite@myfooter.really> wrote:

...snip...
Without putting that all into LTSpice I don't see what your start and
stop
times are, but from what I know about such things you need to simulate it
over a good long time -- probably well over one second to capture the 1/f
behavior accurately, even in the neighborhood of the 1/f Hz rolloff.

You probably also want to make sure that any transients have died off
before you do the FFT.

And make sure that LTSpice isn't modeling the noise in an op-amp with 1/f
noise. I doubt this, but hey -- maybe they're lots better than I think.

Thank you for your comments.
The start and stop times appear as 'calculations' based upon the number of
data points I allowed and the maximum time step of interest
N=20000, dt=50uS
Then to be certain things were settled down a bit, I start at 0.1 period
and end at 1.1 period to make that 100mS to 1.1 Sec
The total span of data is 1 second.

This is a kind of low pass filter so will take time to get through
completely, so based upon your comment, I'll move this out to 9S to 10S to
be ABSOLUTELY sure all has settled. But from other examples at attempting
to do this [not posted here], I'm not holding my breath, but your comment
inspires me to try one more time.

Actually, if the 'transients' are dieing off properly, they're seen but
don't change much.

There is NO OpAmp in the schematic I posted. However, according to Mike
Englehardt author of LTspice, ALL the Linear models included in LTspice
have accurate noise characterizations, but you only see that
characteristic in .noise analysis. I can attest to the 'accuracy' of the
LT1115 and LT1028 models, but again only seen in .noise analysis.

 

>"I don't see a Webmaster email link on the page link I posted. "

Maybe it is background color hex080808 and text color hex090909.

Actually some webdesigners hide keywords that way. Black on black or white on white that might get picked up on a search. The right way to do it is with some sort of meta tag or something. I forget.

Of course alot of that has changed with so much java and whatnot. I like the old HTML myself. You couldn't do all that much with it but you could get your point across and could write it yourself. Easily.

Here's a page anyone should be able to read just fine written ONLY with HTML, what's wrong with it ?

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/29948706/changes/VAL2.htm

Now when yopu want to do commerce I understand there is a difference, but a simple page shold be a simple page. Incidentally that page was redone for the guy, and looks almost identical. I wonder what he charged to convert it to javascript.

 

[RobertMacy]

On Sat, 01 Nov 2014 09:43:48 -0700, George Herold <gherold@teachspin.com>
wrote:

...snip...

I'm too lazy to download your circuit. (no ltspice on this computer.)
Are you trying to make a 1/f with analog?
Maybe just add a 1/f source to your white one. Adjusting levels for the
desired corner. Biased carbon comp resistors show "nice" 1/f noise.

George H.

ok, HOW DO I "JUST ADD a 1/F SOURCE"????!!!

To my knowledge, the ONLY place resistors generate noise in LTspice AND
PSpice is when using .noise analysis. *IF* you had run the LTspice
schematic, you would have seen that this noise source appears in a .tran
analysis. In other words, you get BOTH .tran AND .noise in the SAME run!
That way you can get 'true' circuit simulation with results showing time
waveforms with fuzz from the noise and FFT's with a calibrated noise
floor. But what is REALLY important is you can explore noise in non-linear
circuitry. Mixers, Multipliers, Slew Rate Limit, etc etc.

So, how to 'add' this 1/f noise source you propose?

 

[RobertMacy]

On Fri, 31 Oct 2014 20:55:43 -0700, Tim Wescott
<seemywebsite@myfooter.really> wrote:

...snip....
Without putting that all into LTSpice I don't see what your start and
stop
times are, but from what I know about such things you need to simulate it
over a good long time -- probably well over one second to capture the 1/f
behavior accurately, even in the neighborhood of the 1/f Hz rolloff.

You probably also want to make sure that any transients have died off
before you do the FFT.

And make sure that LTSpice isn't modeling the noise in an op-amp with 1/f
noise. I doubt this, but hey -- maybe they're lots better than I think.

Tim, You FOUND he problem! thought you'd like to hear.

The conclusion is that the noise source spectrum converges over time to
become what is expected. It is NOT immediately correct, but given enough
time, it is correct.

I tested the output of the filter being driven by the noise source in the
following intervals:
0.1 to 1.1S, 20dB/dec
9 to 10S, 15dB/dec
19 to 20S, 12.5dB/dec
100 to 101S, 10.2 dB/dec

Your key phrase of "died off" made me think the reverse, what if I need
ALL the random to get through? And thus it was. Thanks.

Sadly, is the conclusion NOT the way to make a flicker noise source.

 

[Tim Wescott]

On Sun, 02 Nov 2014 06:42:08 -0700, RobertMacy wrote:

On Fri, 31 Oct 2014 20:55:43 -0700, Tim Wescott
seemywebsite@myfooter.really> wrote:

...snip....
Without putting that all into LTSpice I don't see what your start and
stop times are, but from what I know about such things you need to
simulate it over a good long time -- probably well over one second to
capture the 1/f behavior accurately, even in the neighborhood of the
1/f Hz rolloff.

You probably also want to make sure that any transients have died off
before you do the FFT.

And make sure that LTSpice isn't modeling the noise in an op-amp with
1/f noise. I doubt this, but hey -- maybe they're lots better than I
think.


Tim, You FOUND he problem! thought you'd like to hear.

The conclusion is that the noise source spectrum converges over time to
become what is expected. It is NOT immediately correct, but given enough
time, it is correct.

I tested the output of the filter being driven by the noise source in
the following intervals:
0.1 to 1.1S, 20dB/dec 9 to 10S, 15dB/dec 19 to 20S, 12.5dB/dec 100 to
101S, 10.2 dB/dec

Your key phrase of "died off" made me think the reverse, what if I need
ALL the random to get through? And thus it was. Thanks.

Sadly, is the conclusion NOT the way to make a flicker noise source.

I'm glad I was of help, particularly since even though it was educated,
it was still a guess.

So, the reason you don't want to use it as a flicker noise source is the
need for the thing to settle for two minutes before it gives useful
signals? Or does it not work out for some other reason?

--
www.wescottdesign.com

 

[RobertMacy]

On Sun, 02 Nov 2014 14:32:12 -0700, Tim Wescott <tim@seemywebsite.com>
wrote:

...snip...
I'm glad I was of help, particularly since even though it was educated,
it was still a guess.

So, the reason you don't want to use it as a flicker noise source is the
need for the thing to settle for two minutes before it gives useful
signals? Or does it not work out for some other reason?

can't use, because the 'two mintues' actually takes over 200 minutes to
run!

just easier to make a table and be done with it! Except that makes the
schematic around 35MB instead of 3kB

 

[Tim Williams]

Looks like it's starting with a few microvolts offset for some reason...

I did this;
http://seventransistorlabs.com/SimpleFiveResistorCircuitMod.asc
also, Chgtol = 1e-15, Volttol = 1e-8, Gear. Which I don't think it
normally saves in the file.

It's probably not a bad idea to scale the voltages to something more
realistic (i.e., ~1V, not ~1uV), or tighten Volttol (as above).

Tim

--
Seven Transistor Labs
Electrical Engineering Consultation
Website: http://seventransistorlabs.com

"RobertMacy" <robert.a.macy@gmail.com> wrote in message
newsp.xomioufm2cx0wh@ajm...

Anybody have any inkling of what is going on here?

trying to make a simple 1/f gaussian white noise source that has an
intercept at F0, this case approx 100Hz. I have the pdf and white noise
source, very flat. To control the charactersitics and get that weird
rolloff so the 'energy' is 1/f is posing some difficulties.

Thought process was to take the white noie source and put it through a
filter that exhibits 1/f. I have that in the below schematic. from 0.1Hz
to 100 Hz, 3 decades, the filter's output drops only 30 dB, not the
standard 60 dB like a single capaictor would do. PERFECT! Running the
white noise through that filter seemed like it should produce a nice 1/f
down to intercept and then flat. However, run it and you will see that
the FFT of the time waveform coming out drops 60dB over the three
decades, not 30dB as expected.

What's going on?

I suspect there is an interaction between random waveforms and the
complex value of the capacitive filter that causes the spectrum to be
wrong, but ??



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[Tim Wescott]

On Sun, 02 Nov 2014 15:26:44 -0700, RobertMacy wrote:

On Sun, 02 Nov 2014 14:32:12 -0700, Tim Wescott <tim@seemywebsite.com
wrote:

...snip...
I'm glad I was of help, particularly since even though it was educated,
it was still a guess.

So, the reason you don't want to use it as a flicker noise source is
the need for the thing to settle for two minutes before it gives useful
signals? Or does it not work out for some other reason?



can't use, because the 'two mintues' actually takes over 200 minutes to
run!

just easier to make a table and be done with it! Except that makes the
schematic around 35MB instead of 3kB

I thought you were simulate an instrument you were planning on building.

Is the filter built up from resistors & caps? It may simulate a lot
quicker if you run white noise into a voltage-dependent source with the
transfer function specified.

Just a guess -- I wouldn't know how much faster, but it may astonish!

--

Tim Wescott
Wescott Design Services
http://www.wescottdesign.com

 

[RobertMacy]

On Mon, 03 Nov 2014 11:14:56 -0700, Tim Wescott
<seemywebsite@myfooter.really> wrote:

....snip....
I thought you were simulate an instrument you were planning on building.

Is the filter built up from resistors & caps? It may simulate a lot
quicker if you run white noise into a voltage-dependent source with the
transfer function specified.

Just a guess -- I wouldn't know how much faster, but it may astonish!

wow, several questions here.
1. Instrument I can/have simulate using network theory and octave. Works
great.
2. you really didn't look at that schematic! yes, five section of
pole-zeros in series to cause 10dB/dec rolldown to flat. I tried Laplace
which is built-in, but that starts fast then bogs to an infinitely slow
crawl. Tha'ts like a transfer function, I can specify the transfer
function in terms of 's' and LTspice will calculate it. Actually only
really seems to work well in .ac mode. .tran takes a few days to run, then
don't trust anyway because that much accumulation could mean numerical
analyses errors pile up [that's where a small number is added to a large
number and due to the computer's accuray, it doesn't add properly]
3. Ms. Macy had the best insight so far. She said to speed up the filter,
make it higher speed then sample out the results, slow the answers down
and use them as you need them. Really good concept, haven't figured out
how to implement yet, though.

 

[Lasse Langwadt Christense]

Den tirsdag den 4. november 2014 04.28.05 UTC+1 skrev Don Y:

Hi,

I'm looking for the name of a particular style of hammer.

One end consist of a large flat(-ish) surface about 1.5"
diameter. In cross section, it looks like the head of a nail.
I.e., a wide circular striking surface on a much narrower neck.
(contrast that with an Engineer's Hammer, or a Claw Hammer or
a Ball Pein Hammer).

The other end (two striking surfaces!) looks like an anteater's
snout (no other way to describe it :< ). At any point along the
"snout", the cross section would be a circle. The striking end
is about 0.5" in diameter. The "snout" is about 3-4" long and
gradually curves down towards your hand. I.e., the striking
surfaces are not parallel planes (though the amount of curvature
is not as severe as the ripping claw in a carpenter's hammer)

The hammer is relatively lightweight -- like a smaller
Ball Pein Hammer -- but not as light as a Tack Hammer.

Browsing "images" hasn't turned up any useful hits. Having
worked for a hand tool manufacturer, I am well aware of the
myriad varieties of "specialty" hammers available! :

Thx!

ask Tom Lipton, https://www.youtube.com/user/oxtoolco/

Seems like he has a collection of every type of hammer ever made


-Lasse

 

[asdf]

rickman wrote:

I'm not ragging on you. I am ranting in general. I see this often on
web pages. Someone decided it looks nicer to use less contrast on their
pages. Fine if you are browsing for beauty. I just want to be able to
read the durn things.

Although that page looks readable to me I can undesrstand you.

I stopped using white backgrounds ages ago as themes with dark
background are much more readable because they don't bring eyes
to saturation. This is why grey on black (or even dark grey) is much
more readable than the same grey on white background.
Too bad most web/app/desktop programmers/designers are
still stuck to the page-made-of-paper concept. A white screen emits
light while a piece of paper reflects it; when will they learn the
difference?

A search for "dark theme" on Google images will bring some examples.

 

[Paul E Bennett]

Don Y wrote:

Hi,

I'm looking for the name of a particular style of hammer.

One end consist of a large flat(-ish) surface about 1.5"
diameter. In cross section, it looks like the head of a nail.
I.e., a wide circular striking surface on a much narrower neck.
(contrast that with an Engineer's Hammer, or a Claw Hammer or
a Ball Pein Hammer).

The other end (two striking surfaces!) looks like an anteater's
snout (no other way to describe it :< ). At any point along the
"snout", the cross section would be a circle. The striking end
is about 0.5" in diameter. The "snout" is about 3-4" long and
gradually curves down towards your hand. I.e., the striking
surfaces are not parallel planes (though the amount of curvature
is not as severe as the ripping claw in a carpenter's hammer)

The hammer is relatively lightweight -- like a smaller
Ball Pein Hammer -- but not as light as a Tack Hammer.

Browsing "images" hasn't turned up any useful hits. Having
worked for a hand tool manufacturer, I am well aware of the
myriad varieties of "specialty" hammers available! :

Thx!

Is this what you are describing?

<http://anvils.co.uk/products/view/603?cat=78>

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[George Herold]

On Tuesday, November 4, 2014 2:24:20 PM UTC-5, Tim Wescott wrote:

On Tue, 04 Nov 2014 17:38:01 +0100, blisca wrote:

Hi to all,

often i have to measure the current absorbed by small circuits,in
battery appplications Normally i deal with consumptions big as 20mA in
run mode and 2uA in sleep mode.

One method that sometimes i use is to desconnect the battery,leaving the
circuit feeded only by a 10,000 uF capacitor,seldom and quickly measured
by an high impedence multimeter,(of course not a 10 Mohm oscilloscope
probe).Measuring the difference in voltage at a specified times i can
calculate the consumption.The cap was previously measured,to avoid
tolerance error.

More often i need a more immediate measurement,so i feed the circuit by
a commutator switch,in parallel to 1,10 and 100 ohm shunt resistors.
The latter is constantly inserted so that the circuit is not completely
relying on itself during commutations.
When the uc goes to sleep and i need to have an hopefully realistic
rading of few uA i switch on the 100 ohm shunt,the voltage drop between
battery and circuit is below the mV,therefore irrelevant.
The voltage is read by a 6 and half digit DMM via a 60cm(2 ft)twisted
wire.

Is this a good method or others can be better?

Is there any advantage using an instrumentation op amp as buffer or
amplifier, wired very closely to the shunt?

Many thanks for your attention

Diego

I'm taking the liberty of cross-posting this to sci.electronics.design,
because this is really an electronics question, not an embedded question.
I think you'll get more answers from there, and many of them will even be
good ones.

I think your commutation idea will suffer in accuracy if the load is
fairly stiff in voltage -- like if you're driving a capacitor. In that
case the current with the low resistance switched in will be higher than
without.

If the circuit is otherwise isolated, the best way to do the measurement
may be to put your 100 ohm resistor between the circuit ground and the
negative terminal of the battery, then amplify its voltage by 10 or 100
using a chopper-stabilized op-amp. Then you can just read the voltage and
scale it appropriately to current.

--

Tim Wescott
Wescott Design Services
http://www.wescottdesign.com

I was going to suggest a TIA (trans impedance amp.) opamp in the ground return line, maybe with a few R's for different ranges.

I put one together to measure semi conductor I-V and I've used it for a few different things now. (AC resistance of tap water a few weeks ago.)

George H.

 

[Don Y]

On 11/3/2014 8:27 PM, Don Y wrote:

I'm looking for the name of a particular style of hammer.

One end consist of a large flat(-ish) surface about 1.5"
diameter. In cross section, it looks like the head of a nail.
I.e., a wide circular striking surface on a much narrower neck.
(contrast that with an Engineer's Hammer, or a Claw Hammer or
a Ball Pein Hammer).

The other end (two striking surfaces!) looks like an anteater's
snout (no other way to describe it :< ). At any point along the
"snout", the cross section would be a circle. The striking end
is about 0.5" in diameter. The "snout" is about 3-4" long and
gradually curves down towards your hand. I.e., the striking
surfaces are not parallel planes (though the amount of curvature
is not as severe as the ripping claw in a carpenter's hammer)

The hammer is relatively lightweight -- like a smaller
Ball Pein Hammer -- but not as light as a Tack Hammer.

Browsing "images" hasn't turned up any useful hits. Having
worked for a hand tool manufacturer, I am well aware of the
myriad varieties of "specialty" hammers available! :

I contacted my "hand tool" employer (failing to recognize his
seasonal time-change -- damn!) this morning. He indicated that
it's used for autobody repairs and doesn't have a specific name
(apparently, there are a boatload of different designs that are
employed -- some for repair work on doors, others for fenders,
etc. -- so, unlike, for example, *planes*, there are too many
varieties to readily describe). He reminded me of a (different)
"hammer" prototype that he showed many years ago and the "issue"
they had trying to "name" it!

So, I guess I'll google "autobody hammer" when I get back to this
machine... (vote, then pro bono work)

Thanks for all the answers! (some were even correct! :> )