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[Old Sunshine Fan]

Whats with no race receivers ?.... a guy on the back stretch and another on the front lining up drivers after each caution....it looked like the kindergarden lady trying to line up the kiddies for lunch.....race receivers would not only make it QUICKER.....but also safer...remember Bronson ? ? ?...Make them mandatory but have track "Rentals" as well (Thats a money maker right there...) I did'nt think that up....other tracks have done it in order to A. Keep the show moving B. Be safer and C. Look professional.....just saying....OSF

[chassisdude]

Seen the same thing today at Desoto. Son races in Ohio and you can buy a receiver for $300 or rent for $25 a week, saves a lot of time, both for drivers and fans. They use them also to settle a couple drivers down when they are getting close to a black flag for their driving and for calling out cautions and where the problem is on the track

[ocalasp76]

Receivers are must now a days. Summit has them for $99. I use a scanner tuned to the tower or a receiver Freq... At NSS I hear the tower call yellow before the lights even go on and they do the line up afterwards. No chasing down a spotter..
-JIM-

[Darrell 76]

receivers

race receivers are manditory at Volusia , if we aren't racing I take mine to the stands with me .

[Old Sunshine Fan]

At EB, if they don't follow race receiver instructions they are told it will show at the pay window....and the race continues....they don't play @ The Bay...OSF

[Phil Jacques]

Every track should require all drivers in every division to use a race scanner... For $100, it's worth it. If you can't come up with $100, you shouldn't be racing. It's not only a good safety item to alert drivers of a crash ahead if they can not see it and a yellow is out for some tracks that may not have the best caution light system, but it also helps get people lined up accordingly.

[kendo]

race receivers are manditory at Volusia , if we aren't racing I take mine to the stands with me .

Which is why they can run off 16 races in the same amount of time it takes NSS to run 4

[jacko241]

New Smyrna now requires Raceivers in all divisions according to the 2015 rules.

[scottgarrity07]

New Smyrna now requires Raceivers in all divisions according to the 2015 rules.

If you use radios how do you use a raceciever with them? Curious to know.

[racin24dev]

If you use radios how do you use a raceciever with them? Curious to know.

Your spotter would have the Raceceiver and would either have a separate earphone in one ear, or if their headset has an Aux plug then you can just plug the Raceceiver directly into the headset and the spotter would relay the information to the driver.

[scottgarrity07]

Your spotter would have the Raceceiver and would either have a separate earphone in one ear, or if their headset has an Aux plug then you can just plug the Raceceiver directly into the headset and the spotter would relay the information to the driver.

Thanks Devin. If that's the case couldn't you just have your spotter have an earpiece connected to a scanner monitoring the same frequency as the raceciever? Then if you had a scanner you wouldn't have to buy a raceciever.

[jacko241]

I may be wrong Scott, but I think the driver has to have one as well now. Your spotter can use a regular scanner. We have a crew headset that has a jack built in for Raceceiver, they were required in Grand Am, too. Raceceiver makes a model called the legend that has 2 jacks, and comes with a splitter cable, so you plug your earbuds into it, then the cable to your helmet jack.

[scottgarrity07]

I may be wrong Scott, but I think the driver has to have one as well now. Your spotter can use a regular scanner. We have a crew headset that has a jack built in for Raceceiver, they were required in Grand Am, too. Raceceiver makes a model called the legend that has 2 jacks, and comes with a splitter cable, so you plug your earbuds into it, then the cable to your helmet jack.

Thanks for the info Joe. That sounds like a better alternative, well, as long as the spotter signal overrides the raceciever signal when simultaneously transmitting!

[chassisdude]

Son races a modified now in Ohio and only has the Raceceiver in his ear, but when he races the late model he had a splitter done up that spotter was in one ear and the track was in the other. I ask him if it was hard to understand two people at the same time, he laughed and said you get use to it

[Rick Day]

Receceiver

With tracks that I have worked at in the past, the lower divisions the driver wore the scanner because they were not allowed two way communications. In the Upper tier classes like Super Late Models, Open Wheel Modifieds and Trucks all have two way radio and have spotters. The spotter has the raceceiver and will monitor race control.