[Fot] AMB TRANX 260 Transponder

[Scott Janzen]

OK - maybe my judgements were harsh!   Do all the dirt track racers and 
local stock car racers use this too?  How about mortorcycles?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "steve" <colordog.1 at earthlink.net>
To: <fot at autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 12:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Fot] AMB TRANX 260 Transponder


> 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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