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Originally Posted by fencer39
Thanks for the reply Terry.
So, the brca or somebody from it has approached mylaps and expressed concern for all those members with incompatible equipement?
Or does the brca not really have any influence other than just offering an insurance service?
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Hi
Yes of course - had a sequence of meetings at the recent Autosports show, the executive people who are into timing met up with 3 people from MyLaps
There have been two outcomes to that, the first is that MyLaps are going to keep the 'Harry' available as long as is possible (It works with ANY MyLaps digital decoder) and the importer is going to point out to prospective purchasers of Purcy's to check with their club that the club has upgraded to RC4.
You need to bear in mind the following: -
MYLaps customers have been requesting the ability to have multiple transponders with the same base number for a while.
RC4 is their solution to this.
However their customers are not just RC Car racers not by a long chalk, the same hiccup occurs in numerous sports e,g, cycling, sking etc.
MyLaps I don't think have even considered MRT in this process, their concern is for their equipment to be backwards compatible and in that they have succeded in that ANY AMB/MyLaps PT will work with any of their systems - Job Done.
So If I had a question about an MRT Transponder I would be asking MRT personally - but that's just my take on it.
There have also been considerable discussions about the Nationals with the sections (some sections use the clubs timing kit, other sections have their own) they will be communicating with the drivers likely to do Nationals on what will be happeneing where.
Some sections won;t be doing anything until the AGM, other committee's will deal with it as they see fit - as the authority within the section committee's varies from class to class depending on what their racers want.
Club racing is entirely the clubs own affairs and I guess will depend drastically on what kit the members have, some clubs are 100% AMB/MyLaps, as are some National classes - others have quite a high MRT usage, so it will need to vary.
Oh and BTW the Insurance is a tiny tiny part of what the Exec does to keep this sport in existance - literally..
Jim Spencer
Treasurer
BRCA