JohnLaclair Posted January 9 Report Share Posted January 9 Good morning , My question is does Champ Car have any vendors that come to the track days and races that do two way radios ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bill Strong Posted January 9 Administrators Report Share Posted January 9 Nope. Sorry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnLaclair Posted January 9 Author Report Share Posted January 9 Thanks. Any chance that that could be looked at in the future ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bill Strong Posted January 9 Administrators Report Share Posted January 9 5 hours ago, JohnLaclair said: Thanks. Any chance that that could be looked at in the future ? I am working on sponsors now. The past says that radio sponsors stand around a lot at all events that they have attended, and made very little money. The feedback was not good for any to return as onsite supporters. Unfortunately ChampCar is not the bastion of money some think our teams have. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
333 Kinkle Posted January 9 Report Share Posted January 9 John I am working with a proven racing radio vendor ( not racing radios) and getting a package together to rent for the race weekends. Package includes driver and one pit radio set. Very basic. Basic comes with ease and reliability hopefully.Plug and play install. Working out the details for a couple months now. It would be shipped out by the Monday before the race and shipped back by the following week. Kind of like the guy who rents FIA fire suits and team safety packages but just radios. If others are reading this let me know how much interest there is so I can judge how much equipment to get. And any special specific needs anyone has or experiences. What are you willing to pay to talk to your driver? Thanks for any feed back. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grufton Posted January 10 Report Share Posted January 10 6 minutes ago, 333 Kinkle said: What are you willing to pay to talk to your driver? That's the real question right? My impression has been that a decent system is well over $1000, and so our team doesn't use radios. Would be interested to know if other folks are accomplishing this on a "chump" rather than "champ" budget scale. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Team Infiniti Posted January 10 Report Share Posted January 10 (edited) 2 hours ago, Grufton said: That's the real question right? My impression has been that a decent system is well over $1000, and so our team doesn't use radios. Would be interested to know if other folks are accomplishing this on a "chump" rather than "champ" budget scale. Municipal city auction vehicle Radios, had the opportunity to dig through a pile and find the park service used the 400 MHz range and latched on to one particular brand of Kenwood based on this finding, from there have purchased a couple of replacements on eBay as bad things happen. Another auction attended had obsolete (15-year-old)Ferrari race car and team stuff wound up with a pile of Kenwood handheld, bought new batteries and learned how to program everything. Knowing what I know now, I’d probably be $200 richer if I had just bought the thousand dollar set up front as this is an evolution that started with Old school CB, motorcycle chatterbox Radios, Then bao fang junk Edited January 10 by Team Infiniti 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Team Infiniti Posted January 10 Report Share Posted January 10 1 hour ago, 333 Kinkle said: John I am working with a proven racing radio vendor ( not racing radios) and getting a package together to rent for the race weekends. Package includes driver and one pit radio set. Very basic. Basic comes with ease and reliability hopefully.Plug and play install. Working out the details for a couple months now. It would be shipped out by the Monday before the race and shipped back by the following week. Kind of like the guy who rents FIA fire suits and team safety packages but just radios. If others are reading this let me know how much interest there is so I can judge how much equipment to get. And any special specific needs anyone has or experiences. What are you willing to pay to talk to your driver? Thanks for any feed back. Don't need but think you are onto something. Good Luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wheelman_99 - C Rallo Posted January 10 Report Share Posted January 10 John, do you need parts, equip or programming support? At any race that Rockwell Autosport attends this year, my GF can program Motorola and Beofong. Also, most vendors will do it pretty affordably if you ship the stuff to them, often for free if you're a customer or at least buying some new equip at the time. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bill Strong Posted January 10 Administrators Report Share Posted January 10 That was our issue. We spent a few grand if not more on many different setup before I just bit the bullet and spent $1500 on 4x HYT radios. Awesome radios that work super well at every track we attend. I even use them for the ChampCar Live show every now and then. Fun note : In March 2021, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) declared that Hytera video surveillance and telecommunications services and equipment "pose an unacceptable risk to U.S. national security.”[11] In November 2022, the FCC banned sales or import of equipment made by Hytera for national security reasons.[12] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MMiskoe Posted January 10 Report Share Posted January 10 Does this mean Bill is a terrorist? Maybe we're about to find out if the NSA is reading this forum? See you in Guantanamo! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bill Strong Posted January 10 Administrators Report Share Posted January 10 9 hours ago, MMiskoe said: See you in Guantanamo! That place sounds so warm! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmabarone Posted January 10 Report Share Posted January 10 1 hour ago, Bill Strong said: That place sounds so warm! Say hi to my brother when you get down there. He starts a deployment down there tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smitham32803 Posted January 10 Report Share Posted January 10 16 hours ago, 333 Kinkle said: John I am working with a proven racing radio vendor ( not racing radios) and getting a package together to rent for the race weekends. Package includes driver and one pit radio set. Very basic. Basic comes with ease and reliability hopefully.Plug and play install. Working out the details for a couple months now. It would be shipped out by the Monday before the race and shipped back by the following week. Kind of like the guy who rents FIA fire suits and team safety packages but just radios. If others are reading this let me know how much interest there is so I can judge how much equipment to get. And any special specific needs anyone has or experiences. What are you willing to pay to talk to your driver? Thanks for any feed back. Please keep us in the loop on the progress. This sounds interesting if we can work on a reasonable cost solution. As mentioned above it is hard to justify a $1K+ purchase for radios when our team only races a couple times a year. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ross2004 Posted January 10 Report Share Posted January 10 A potential alternative to two way radios: https://www.hmsmotorsport.com/item/st5k-chaser-wireless-kit 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnLaclair Posted January 10 Author Report Share Posted January 10 (edited) Didn't mean to open a big can of worms about this. But thanks for all the response. I come from a short track LMSC background so to me it's just second nature to think about two way comms. Normally we would have a vendor show up twice a season and take care of any thing that you could think of radio wise. As I'm still new to this type of racing I just wanted to ask. Edited January 10 by JohnLaclair spelling 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smitham32803 Posted January 10 Report Share Posted January 10 3 hours ago, ross2004 said: A potential alternative to two way radios: https://www.hmsmotorsport.com/item/st5k-chaser-wireless-kit This is a very interesting option. we might need to look into this option 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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