[Vintage-race] 2 way radios

[Sam & Greg]

Curt:

I think every race group uses a different set of frequencies so a 
scanner is about your only choice.  It can be difficult to find out 
what frequency they are using but it's worth the trouble.  You hear 
when the race before yours has x laps to go, and when they get the 
checker so you can time your arrival in the grid.  Also saves a lot 
of worry for your crew when their driver doesn't come around.  I have 
a Uniden BC80XLT that works great.

I always figured that if I had an in-car radio, my crew (daughter) 
would keep yelling "GO FASTER" and I would have to respond "I AM!".

Greg Scharnberg
Des Moines, IA

At 02:38 PM 6/13/2007, cfisher at borgwarner.com wrote:
>Good idea in general about the scanner. I have a Radio Shack "NASCAR"
>scanner and hate it though. I don't know if there is something wrong with
>mine or I'm just too stupid to figure it out, but have very little luck
>picking up the corner workers even when I manually program the frequency in.
>I had it working for a while Sunday, though it broke up constantly, then it
>just refused to pick up the signal at all. I wondered if I accidently hit a
>key that locked the signal out! Very confusing instructions. Can anyone
>recommend a good cheap, easy to find scanner, or better yet, just radio to
>pick up race control transmissions?
>
>Curt Fisher
>
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