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NOTE: To get off this list, send email to majordomo@aqua.ccwr.ac.za with the body of the message containing the line: unsubscribe sowacs To: Luis Gurovic Greetings fom Australia... If you get a CPN 503 as a replacement for the Troxler, would your students be interested in using our software ? There would be no charge if you were using it for teaching. It is part-translated into Spanish, but not properly checked. The software is designed for commercial growers (not research), using soil moisture to schedule irrigations Wine grape growers use it to control drip systems to automatically apply water to maintain the soil water content at varying levels during the season i.e. RDI The software can use the CPN 503; Sentek Diviner2000; Delta-T ProfileProbe; CNC neutron probe (Beijing); and any other instrument that outputs data in a text file. I will be in Capetown for the next 2 weeks with users, but will be checking email --- There are a lot of 2nd hand CPN 503's on the market. Are you interested in sources in the USA ? >Luis >Here is a message of help from Trevor Finch. >I am sorry your original message did not go out in October when you sent it >to me the first time. (The hosting site had major changes, and they could >not send sowacs for several weeks!) > >I might send a shorter version of your plea again in a few days and I will >include your email in it. > >Thank you for your kind words. > >Bruce >==================== >Trevor >I have copied this to Luis lgurovic@pop.puc.cl as you can see. >Bruce > >>>>> > >If Luis Gurovich finds a CPN 503 for teaching we would like to offer him a >copy of our irrigation scheduling software (it runs in Spanish) > >Do you have a direct email for him ? > > > >>I hope you still remember me, the guy from Chile you hosted in >>Pietermarisbourg in 1996. >> >>I have followed very closely your brilliant professional activities, >>through SOWACS. My students in Irrigation Science and Plant - Soil - Water >>Relationships (Agronomy) and Irrigation & Drainage Engineering (Civil >>Engineering)courses, MUST read your Internet page and browse through the >>different sensors you have reviewed on it. The first examination each >>semester on these courses include ALWAYS the following question: What is >>SOWACS all about, and what kind of proffesional information can be obtained >>from it?. >> >>I am facing a bitter complication in my research work, and perharps you can >>give me a hand: after 20 consecutive years of intensive use, my Toxler >>Neutrometer model 3330 decided to get an early retirement. Nor the company >>representing Troxler in Chile, nor Troxler USA can service it, because they >>do not carry any more the electronic and electric blueprints for this >>antiquitÈ. So, no matter that Americiumn has an half-life of a couple of >>thousand years, the instrument is now unusable and must be disposed >>properly, as the radiactivity by-laws define. >> >>The problem does not end there: I do no have any budget to buy a new >>neutrometer, and chances to get funds for this instrument are nil, due to >>the world current situation, that is affecting deeply all our activities in >>this country. I wonder if you can help me with contacts in a few >>Universities or companies that possibly have used neutrometers no longer in >>use, that can be donated to our University in Chile; shipping costs and >>custom taxes can be paid by the Luis Gurovich Foundation, a private >>organization with no capital, headquarters nor secretary, but full of >>enthusiasm to do research and to teach every year 200 students what is a >>neutrometer, and how it is used for irrigation scheduling. >> >>For the time being, at my rather mature (frankly speaking, old is the >>correct word) I have been forced to go backwards 50 years, depending on >>soil sampling and drying to go on with my work. >> >>See you, >> >> >>Luis Gurovich >> > > ------------ Trevor Finch Research Services New England 8/16 Nicholson Street Balmain, NSW 2041 Australia T: +61 (2) 9810 3563 F: +61 (2) 9810 3323 mailto:support@rsne.com.au http://www.rsne.com.au --------------------------