Originally Posted by is300zx
All I can say is that if you don't want to pay $100 for an AMB pt, then you should go and find a way to make an alternative and take AMB head on. Make it better and make it cheaper. If it is really that simple to make I don't see why others haven't already done so.
You said it! There's nothing stopping anyone else from coming out with a competing product. Actually KO had something several years ago that used the RF noise from a car's receiver (or something like that) to act as PTs, but AMB has the market saturation (can we say Windows?) to not worry about anything.
I am glad that I got my PTs (used to have 3, sold 1) early when they were about 60-65 or so.
I do think the RFID tag idea would be sweet though - make the hardware compatible with existing race control software and we could possibly have a true $5 solution for transponders
