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Re: AMB Transponder Needed for TOM CHANDLER

To: BillB@bnj.com, N197TR4@cs.com, fot@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: AMB Transponder Needed for TOM CHANDLER
From: WEmery7451@aol.com
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 00:09:46 EST
In a message dated 3/29/05 12:51:59 PM Pacific Standard Time, BillB@bnj.com 
writes:

<< Actually, the cheapest way is to not have one. You don't get a time, and 
you
 start from the back of the pack, but starting out, who cares?  
  >>
Around here, there is a strong chance that you will be disqualified and not 
allowed to run.  During the first race that I attended which required 
transponders, I was called in and told that mine was not working.  The Glen 
Region was 
putting on the race, and knew that I had bought a transponder from them the 
previous winter.  I told them that I knew that it wasn't working because I 
didn't have time to put it on.  Your entry form instructions said that 
transponders 
were only needed for the enduro race.  They said that other people made that 
mistake and wanted to rent one to me.  I had brought mine along and managed to 
install it in the paddock.

The next event, my boy had trouble with his battery powered transponder for 
his RX-7 Mazda.  Some grid worker told him that if he can't get it working 
right, they were going to disqualify him.  Since I had sheared off my flywheel 
bolts on the TR-3, I lent my transponder to him, which is hard wired.  I then 
told him to keep it and get rid of that battery powered one.

I ordered another hard wired transponder directly from AMB over the Internet. 
 The next time out, my new transponder would not work right.  It would show 
times for a couple of laps and then quit.  After fiddling around most of 
Saturday and Sunday trying to make it work, and each time being told that the 
thing 
would quit working, I looked into renting one (for a fee and some huge 
deposit).  Much to my surprise, they lent one to me for nothing.

I then contacted AMB about my problems.  They told me to send back my 
transponder, and they sent me another one, which works. 

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