[Fot] AMB TRANX 260 Transponder

[steve]

As a web-developer, I must say that the "www.mylaps.com" site is not inexpensive to produce and maintain.  I find the site a very useful part of the transponder system.  It's a great searchable database of racer's lap times all over the country.  It's pretty interesting to search by name and look at any racer's lap times by event and by year.  The Transponder unit is part of an overall system that's alot more acurate than the old stopwatch days. I agree that it ain't cheap but in this sport we've got to pay to play.

~S

-----Original Message-----
>From: William G Rosenbach <wgrosenbach at juno.com>
>Sent: Jul 26, 2007 9:07 AM
>To: S.Janzen at comcast.net
>Cc: fot at autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: [Fot] AMB TRANX 260 Transponder
>
>>>>Is this a conspiracy between the clubs and the mfr where the
>individual devices/racers 
>subsidize the cost of the monitoring equipment, so that what the T&S
>group 
>has to buy is cheap, or is AMB just making lots of money?
>
>NO conspiracy. Taking 29 Cents worth of electronics, potting them in 3
>Cents worth of plastic and selling it for $300.00 is the 'murican way. As
>America has had to out source all of our service related activities, we
>can no longer gather enough bodies to do actual T&S functions. That
>leaves us to; do without, video link to India to have them do T&S, or use
>a system like AMB.
>
>AMB has us by the short hairs. Racers & Sanctioning bodies alike. There
>are always software updates and new hardware needed to wrangle all those
>ones & zeros.
>
>Bill
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