03-15-2006, 09:36 AM
999.... house transponders years ago as much cheaper. Before personals. our scoring would only have to count 1 to 0 and we would have two rows in our rack. The racers would police the transponders because they had to have one to be scored. back then i lost one transponder in 5 years. The newer scoring counts 7 digits. so the house transponders cost 3 times more money. and we have maybe 15 people using them out of 100 so the racer policing them is gone. so if someone used say number 7 transponder in race one and it was not use for the rest of the day we would not know its gone til the end of the day. and yes 8 out of 10 it comes back in a week or two and some not at all. A lot of out of towner. we know who has it but not alway know how to get a hold of them. We have losted 4 transponders since January and still hoping for 2 too be return. Like I said a racer will miss his liscence before he fines the transponder in his rc. and 5 dollars fine for not returning is cheap.
bernie
bernie