Some of the tracks in Northern California are talking about going to the raceceiver. Are you running them? Whats everyones experience with them? Good or bad.
What is the cost? Which one is the most popular model? Are they battery powered or hard wired? Iniatially they sound like a great idea to me, just wondering
what the drawbacks are if there are any?
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Posts: 22 (01/26/08 12:23 PM) |
We currently use the transponders, and have had good success with them. Out here they the car either own or rent one. However the Raceceivers are something
different. You wear these in your ear and the track can tell you (one way conversation)different things during the race, like where to line up under a yellow,
where there is an accident, black flag, etc.
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Posts: 924 (01/26/08 10:15 PM) |
We use a "Pit Crew" unit from speedway motors cheapest thing i could find $ wise it works great. Speedway sells them cheaper then e-bayers too.
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Posts: 301 (01/26/08 11:50 PM) |
Get the latest Raceceiver with the ON/OFF button. Older ones had no ON/OFF you had to remove the battery to shut it off. Went through batteries every other
race weekend because you end up leaving it on for the entire night of racing.
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Posts: 40 (01/27/08 12:20 PM) |
The latemodel teams and some of the sprints use the raceceivers around kansas. As a driver it kinda stinks having someone talking in your ear when you cant
talk back to them, but its a great safety feature to alert drivers of wrecks and also alert lap cars of incoming faster drivers. It takes a bit for the driver
to get used to, but its a great safety feature. As a track official, its great cuz the drivers cant talk back to you. It makes lineups faster, and cautions
faster as well, with them the officials can tell drivers where to be instead of someone standing in the middle of the track pointing where somone needs to be.
Now for cost, if you race at a track once or twice a year you might consider renting them but for the most part its just cheaper and easier to buy them. If i remember right it was 20 or 30 bucks to rent them, or else you could buy them for 90 bucks. |
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Posts: 883 (01/28/08 07:29 PM) |
All the tracks we run in NY have mandatory one way radios. They greatly speed up the show for getting cars re-alligned after a caution. And also for tellingg
cars where debris is or fluid is to run over (or not) during cautions. They are pretty much worthless for "directing traffic" during actual racing
sicne you cant understand them over the engine noise. BUT... when they use them to anounce a caution. Which is the ONLY time they are used under green, then
everyone knows instantly that there is a caution. and can get off the gas, listen for the information ( trouble high in turn 3..ect) and react accordingly.
This can make racing less dangerous in 2 ways. 1. You wont miss seeing a cornerworkers yellow flag on the backstretch because your in heavy traffic ect. 2. The cornerworkers dont have to be out near the track at all. my personal opinion is that they are great for the sport in general. You can get the raceciever for 90 buck, or i got an old programmable scanner off ebay for 8 bucks that lasted me 4 years. JB  Winners never quit- quitters never win, But those who never quit and never win are the most fun. |
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Posts: 20 (01/29/08 09:08 PM) |
To make a long story short I am/was a dealer for Raceiver Radio's. I still have 10. If anyone is interested I'll make them a great deal. I have 6
drivers versions and 4 spectator versions. The only difference is the ear pieces. These do turn off.
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Posts: 68 (01/29/08 09:53 PM) |
James Lewis can you e-mail me info on the raceivers
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Posts: 322 (01/30/08 12:24 AM) |
So why are we not using these James?? I think Jeff Barker has some good points in his post. I think we should use them. We would only need to get another 15 or
so. Post it on our site for discussion. I say "Yes" but you know me, I am for everything atleast once.
Racecar spelled backwards is still Racecar
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James Lewis |
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Posts: 21 (02/01/08 08:25 PM) |
Dan'o I agree with you. I have offered them, for free to the club to use, but no one seem'd interested. I also donated two Motorola 2 way radio's
in the begining. So I dropped it and decided to get rid of them.
Jim Info at http://www.raceceiver.com/c~5.php
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