Originally Posted by
leigh123
I was going to suggest to our club that we take advantage of the offer to upgrade our RC2 to the new RC4 Decoder . Glad I didn't as we have a lot of MRT Transponders in use that it seems don't work with the new decoder.
Sounds like there will be some clubs out there who took advantage of the offer and will have some unhappy members when they realise their MRT transponders will be useless. Can't even resort back to their old decoder if you took advantage of the deal as you had to send them your old decoder as a trade in.
Glad we didn't jump the gun!
Bit of rock and a hard place. What are you going to do when racers turn up with a pure RC4 transponders, it's not going to work either!
Mylaps have had the good offer of trading in your RC2 for an RC3 available for about 2 years and while the price was a bit expensive (about $2K if I recall correctly) I thought it was wise to take advantage of that offer and recommended clubs do it if they could afford it.
The RC3 was much better beast than the RC2 which was a bit of a lame duck in comparison.
That offer has gone since the latest RC4 issue.
But this latest trade from RC3 to RC4 is a whole new can of worms.
The fact that the pure RC4 transponder (non hybrid) will only work with RC4 decoder is sh*te and just seems like a tactic to force elimination of RC2 and RC3 decoders.