Dear Dr. Heng:

I really appreciate very much your willingness to help me with the 
neutrometer. If necessary, we may finance any shipping and custom costs.

Your help on the subject represent for me an enhanced stimuli to work 
harder on vine and tablegrape deficit irrigation.

Lookinf forward for your help, I remain,

Yours sincerely,

Prof. Luis A. Gurovich

   in  At 03:17 p.m. 23-11-01 +0100, you wrote:
>Dear Prof. Gurovich,
>
>I'm Lee Heng from IAEA. We corresponded before on our FAO/IAEA Booklet on
>Deficit Irrigation. Anyway, I read your request on your Troxler and I wonder
>if you have any luck so far?
>Just want to let know that we have 2 Troxler Model 3222A which we do not
>use. At the moment our technical officer is involved in heavy training but
>once he's off this task he'll check if the electronics is still working. We
>might be able to send one to you if it's still in working order.
>Best wishes and regards
>
>Lee Heng
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-sowacs@aqua.ccwr.ac.za [mailto:owner-sowacs@aqua.ccwr.ac.za]
>Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 7:53 PM
>Subject: Neutrometric greetings: seeking a replacement Troxler
>
>
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>[This post was sent in October, but never made it out to sowacs, so here it
>is again... Please see if you can be of help to my friend Luis. Bruce]
>
>Dear Bruce:
>
>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
>antiquité. 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
>
>
>(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?.)
>
>[Thanks for the compliments, Luis :) Bruce]