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Do you own an AMB Transponder?

Yes
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No
29 (78.4%)

Total Members Voted: 36

Voting closed: December 08, 2009, 02:20:26 PM

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Personal Transponder?
« on: November 23, 2009, 01:20:26 PM »
We would appreciate the help with some data collection for our timing and scoring department.

Thank you for your support of CCS Racing!
« Last Edit: November 23, 2009, 01:22:44 PM by CCS »
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Re: Personal Transponder?
« Reply #1 on: November 23, 2009, 03:16:13 PM »
I've needed one for CRA, AHRMA, and WERA.  There are used ones out there too.  Just a thought, Kevin.
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Re: Personal Transponder?
« Reply #2 on: November 23, 2009, 06:33:51 PM »
I don't own one but if the question is would I buy one? hell yes!
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Re: Personal Transponder?
« Reply #3 on: November 23, 2009, 07:23:20 PM »
how much do they cost  to buy one new?
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Re: Personal Transponder?
« Reply #4 on: November 23, 2009, 08:21:23 PM »
how much do they cost  to buy one new?
I wanna say around $350?  They can be bought used for a little less.  They do hold their value well and seem to crash pretty well yet.

Rentals are usually around $50, so, it doesn't take long for one to find a good reason to own one if the racing body uses them.  I wanna say that CCS paid around $300 each for their transmitters for the dbcom set up they use.

Then there's mylaps.com.  Usually, the organization posts up times on that site.  Not sure if there is a cost on that or what exactly.  Probably is, but it's nice.  We've been to Brainerd on a Saturday racing, and then looked at our times and those of competitors that night.  All depends upon them being uploaded.  You can get results that way.  Not perfect, but it's usually a pretty good indicator.
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Re: Personal Transponder?
« Reply #5 on: November 23, 2009, 10:09:54 PM »
Per Mylaps/AMB website $430 rechargable, $380 direct wired used has a $50 transfer fee
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Re: Personal Transponder?
« Reply #6 on: November 23, 2009, 10:13:05 PM »
FYI CCS uses Westhold not DbCom, did have DbCom system about 10 years ago tho
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Re: Personal Transponder?
« Reply #7 on: November 23, 2009, 10:44:39 PM »
There are used ones out there too.  Just a thought, Kevin.
Sooo...maybe I could buy one from someone faster than me...and then maybe I'd be faster...Just a thought, Dave...
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Re: Personal Transponder?
« Reply #8 on: November 23, 2009, 11:22:33 PM »
CCS isn't going to start making us buy/rent our own transponders, are they?
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Re: Personal Transponder?
« Reply #9 on: November 29, 2009, 07:14:23 PM »
No, I do not owne one, nor would I like to buy one. Yeah there may be used ones available, until CCS Racers have to buy one and the used market will be gone. $450.00 for a transponder? I think I could find a lot of other stuff to spend 450 dollars on.
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Re: Personal Transponder?
« Reply #10 on: November 29, 2009, 09:36:12 PM »
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Re: Personal Transponder?
« Reply #11 on: November 30, 2009, 08:48:47 AM »
No, I do not owne one, nor would I like to buy one. Yeah there may be used ones available, until CCS Racers have to buy one and the used market will be gone. $450.00 for a transponder? I think I could find a lot of other stuff to spend 450 dollars on.
$450 isn't that much if you compare it a set of tires. Oh yeah, Darrell only needs one set of tires a season. :)
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Re: Personal Transponder?
« Reply #12 on: December 06, 2009, 10:57:25 PM »
Deadline's approaching for the cut-off of this Poll, so I hope everybody has voted.
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Re: Personal Transponder?
« Reply #13 on: December 12, 2009, 09:45:04 PM »
i dont have one

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Re: Personal Transponder?
« Reply #14 on: December 22, 2009, 12:11:09 AM »
After using the CCS system and then running some CRA stuff this past year - I bought a AMB.  Got one used for $250.
I believe CRA charges $50 to rent one for a weekend + $5.00 for the mount.
Personally I like having my own transponder, as long as I remember to charge it.  Down side is I really don't like the mylaps.com format especially compared to what Russell has done - his is way more user friendly.
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