San Marcos Hobbytown Track
10-11-2009, 10:45 PM
#16
10-12-2009, 04:52 PM
#17
Bob, thanks again for you and Tex putting on the program yesterday. Hopefully for next time the transponder system will cooperate. Maybe then, Tex will call me by my correct name each race. I went from Mark (correct), to Steve, to John....good thing the day ended when it did! Great job though, it was a solid program and you had a great schedule of events for the day and gave 5 minute warnings to get on the track for each heat. It was all fun for me!
10-13-2009, 04:46 PM
#18
San Marcos Hobbytown Track
Bob, thanks again for you and Tex putting on the program yesterday. Hopefully for next time the transponder system will cooperate. Maybe then, Tex will call me by my correct name each race. I went from Mark (correct), to Steve, to John....good thing the day ended when it did! Great job though, it was a solid program and you had a great schedule of events for the day and gave 5 minute warnings to get on the track for each heat. It was all fun for me!
We really appreciate everyones patience and cooperation. We tried our best to make sure everyone had a good time, and doing away with the entry fee was our way of showing our appreciation.
Our thanks to all the racers that showed up, Bob.
10-13-2009, 05:17 PM
#19
San Marcos Hobbytown Track
We will be posting a race schedule later this week that takes us through 2010.
Our intent is to not conflict with racing scheduled for down south.
Our intent is to not conflict with racing scheduled for down south.
10-16-2009, 12:52 AM
#20
San Marcos Hobbytown Track
I'm happy to tell you that the transponder problems that we had at last sundays races have been eliminated, and we are looking forward to a trouble free race day on sunday, 11/08/09.
We will open the track for practice and sign up at 8:00am. Sign up will close at 9:30am, our first heat will start at 10:00am.
Earlier I told you we will be doing some things aimed at helping racers who are relatively new to our hobby. Included in what we have planned will be a track layout that is less technical. We think we can do this with a simple track layout modification that can be done and undone in a short amount of time between races.
Another idea is one or more loaner vehicles available to the newcomers for practice and limited racing at no cost except an entry fee if used for racing.
We have a Slash that we loaned out last weekend to four different racers!
As I have said before, we are doing this to have fun, and that's what we want you to have too!
We hope to see you all again on sunday, 11/08/09.
We will open the track for practice and sign up at 8:00am. Sign up will close at 9:30am, our first heat will start at 10:00am.
Earlier I told you we will be doing some things aimed at helping racers who are relatively new to our hobby. Included in what we have planned will be a track layout that is less technical. We think we can do this with a simple track layout modification that can be done and undone in a short amount of time between races.
Another idea is one or more loaner vehicles available to the newcomers for practice and limited racing at no cost except an entry fee if used for racing.
We have a Slash that we loaned out last weekend to four different racers!
As I have said before, we are doing this to have fun, and that's what we want you to have too!
We hope to see you all again on sunday, 11/08/09.
10-21-2009, 10:33 AM
#22
San Marcos Hobbytown Track
I'm sure those racers who were at our Hobbytown Track on 10/11/09 remember the fairly substantial crack in the blacktop where the transponder loop was set up. We hope this won't upset anyone, but we will have that repaired before our next race day on 11/08/09.
Our schedule for the remainder of 2009 is on 11/08/09, and 12/06/09.
Our schedule for 2010 is, 01/03/10, 02/14/10, 03/14/10, 04/11/10, 05/09/10, 06/06/10, 07/04/10, 08/01/10, 09/12/10, 10/10/10, 11/07/10, and 12/05/10.
We plan to open the track for practice and sign up at 8:00am, close sign up at 9:30am, close the track for practice at 9:45am, and begin racing at 10:00am.
Hope to see everyone on 11/08/09.
Our schedule for the remainder of 2009 is on 11/08/09, and 12/06/09.
Our schedule for 2010 is, 01/03/10, 02/14/10, 03/14/10, 04/11/10, 05/09/10, 06/06/10, 07/04/10, 08/01/10, 09/12/10, 10/10/10, 11/07/10, and 12/05/10.
We plan to open the track for practice and sign up at 8:00am, close sign up at 9:30am, close the track for practice at 9:45am, and begin racing at 10:00am.
Hope to see everyone on 11/08/09.
10-24-2009, 04:09 AM
#24
Tech Apprentice
nice, now i have all the hobby town race days! yay, just curious what the problem was with the transponders... was it the wire or the computer part.?
thanks
Garrett
thanks
Garrett
10-24-2009, 10:20 AM
#25
San Marcos Hobbytown Track
Hi Mark, as of 7:30am this morning the crack is gone. A little elbow grease, and some asphalt patch did the trick.
10-24-2009, 10:30 AM
#26
San Marcos Hobbytown Track
The problem was an intermittent break in the coax cable connection at the decoder. It worked just fine on the track at home before the race. After the race I hooked it up again at home and again it worked fine. That was a pretty good indication of some mechanical problem, not too hard to find after that.
11-02-2009, 05:59 PM
#28
11-06-2009, 01:43 AM
#29
Tech Apprentice
the day is around the corner, everyone get ready!
11-07-2009, 09:42 PM
#30
Tech Apprentice
Should be a fun day of racing tomorrow!!! See you there!
-AJ
-AJ