Hi Brit_racer, PM sent!

Terry_S

Terry, I'd appreciate a PM about where to buy in the US as well.

I'm actually British and was born in Kent... but currently live in California. Looks like I now have another reason to miss home!

Yea I don't really see them on-line either. my track is RC4 but it's unknown if these would work there.

Hi Nezil, so we're both British Men of Kent! I don't expect you miss the weather here, or maybe you miss home because you don't have our weather there?! I will send you a PM about where to buy in the US.

Hi KrAcOn, PTX (NS) and the new mPTX / mPTX Pro transponders work with RC4 and AMBrc/rc3 systems.

Terry_S

I've just emailed MRT as to where to get them in the USA. Unless Terry_S 'is' MRT?!

If we're on a British theme, i'm from Leicester, living in Texas!

Hi, I am Terry at MRT, we sell direct or there are stores in the US that have them.

So another brit living in the US, there are a few of you out there!

I once owned a Mellotron 400. And an Austin Healey Sprite, too. Is that enough to make me British?

Wow, a fascinating combination! You can most certainly be an honourary brit Howard I'd really like to know more about you owning a Mellotron 400, did you use it for gigs or just for yourself? I'm really keen on retro keyboards and synthesisers, I just love 'em!

My keyboard skills were crude, so the Mellotron was just for personal entertainment. (I found out quickly that I was better at creating instruments than playing them!) Since we were poor way back in college, I pooled resources with a buddy to buy it. He was an audio tech, so working on the thing was his cup of tea (fortunately, since it always needed work). Fun story: At the time, he worked for the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, and did sound for a production of The Tempest. They needed "angel voices", so he went to a cathedral and recorded a boys' choir singing single notes, then cut the tape and put it into the Mellotron. That took a bit of time!

Here are some other items you might find interesting:

http://www.rctech.net/forum/14026404-post23742.html

http://s1191.photobucket.com/user/ho...?sort=3&page=1
http://s1191.photobucket.com/user/ho...?sort=4&page=1
http://s1191.photobucket.com/user/ho...?sort=4&page=1

Very interesting, that's piqued my interest. It turns out that the tape replay instrument was a US invention after all. Do you have a music and audio tech forum you can recommend to continue this sort of discussion?? My personal interest 'thing' these days is modular synth tech/design, at least when I get time. I'm no expert, I have a friend who is involved in the electronics, it's all so amazing, it's also just great to see retro analogue synths making a comeback too.. I want one!

Unless maybe ,,mylaps or vice versa secretly owns both companies or has a secret deal going on. By strategically cornering the market by selling to guys that like to buy high end & guys looking for a deal. Theres a reason why the rich get richer. Its called LiEs...

Email sent.

I got my 2 PTX transponders in the mail today. How can I tell if they are compatible with the newer RC4 timing system?

If they look like this they work

The mPTX Pro photo on slowrc's post is our new design transponder, the mPTX with a red/black power lead (instead of the Pro black/black wire lead) and the newer PTX (NS) which flashes the LED twice when powered up work with both the old and the new systems.